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‘Not always logical’: binational/biracial marriages in Britain, 1900–1940
The History of the Family ( IF 1.190 ) Pub Date : 2019-05-20 , DOI: 10.1080/1081602x.2019.1612768
Ginger S. Frost 1
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ABSTRACT

This essay explores the intersection of race, religion, and nationality in marriage by concentrating on unions between Britons and ‘Arabs’ (those from North Africa and the Middle East) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Focusing on this area, most of which was not in the British Empire, allows an analysis of the intersection between the empire and the larger world. Marriage was a nexus in the intertwined prejudices of race, empire, class, and religion. Though the British primarily blamed polygamy for any marital problems, their own gendered law of nationality was equally at fault. Indeed, the centrality of gender was clearest in three circumstances. First, many women refused to be ‘white women in peril,’ instead exercising agency in their relationships. Second, British men who moved to the Middle East, converted to Islam, and married Muslim women, became legal hybrids who struggled to pass on British nationality to their wives and children. Third, British-born women married to Middle Eastern Christians faced similar problems, despite marrying other monogamists. In the 1930s, the British government formed a committee to address these issues, but the committee failed to find solutions, in part because the members, like the British state, supported racial/national coverture for women and thus refused to consider granting women equal rights in nationality. As a result, women married to men of different races and nations remained vulnerable to desertion and divorce in the interwar period. Such issues both confirmed the importance of an imperial frame of mind, but also the fact that the dilemmas went well beyond the formal empire.



中文翻译:

“并非总是合乎逻辑”:1900–1940年英国的双边/混血婚姻

摘要

本文着眼于十九世纪末和二十世纪初,英国人和“阿拉伯人”(来自北非和中东的人)之间的结合,探讨了婚姻中的种族,宗教和国籍的交集。着眼于这一领域,其中大部分都不在大英帝国中,可以分析帝国与更大世界之间的交集。婚姻是种族,帝国,阶级和宗教相互交织的偏见的纽带。尽管英国人将婚姻问题归咎于一夫多妻制,但他们自己的性别国籍法也同样存在过错。确实,在三种情况下,性别的中心地位最为明显。首先,许多妇女拒绝成为“危险中的白人妇女”,而是在他们的关系中行使代理权。其次,移居中东的英国人converted依了伊斯兰教,和已婚的穆斯林妇女成为合法的杂种,他们努力将英国国籍传给其妻子和子女。第三,尽管嫁给其他一夫一妻制,嫁给中东基督徒的英国出生妇女也面临类似的问题。在1930年代,英国政府成立了一个委员会来解决这些问题,但委员会未能找到解决办法,部分原因是像英国这样的成员支持对妇女的种族/民族掩护,因此拒绝考虑给予妇女平等权利在国籍上。结果,在两次世界大战期间,与不同种族和民族的男人结婚的妇女仍然容易受到抛弃和离婚的影响。这些问题既证实了帝国主义心态的重要性,也证实了两难境地远远超出了正式帝国。成为合法的杂种,他们努力将英国国籍传给其妻子和子女。第三,尽管嫁给其他一夫一妻制,嫁给中东基督徒的英国出生妇女也面临类似的问题。在1930年代,英国政府成立了一个委员会来解决这些问题,但委员会未能找到解决办法,部分原因是像英国这样的成员支持对妇女的种族/民族掩护,因此拒绝考虑给予妇女平等权利在国籍上。结果,在两次世界大战期间,与不同种族和民族的男人结婚的妇女仍然容易受到抛弃和离婚的影响。这些问题既证实了帝国主义心态的重要性,也证实了两难境地远远超出了正式帝国。成为合法的杂种,他们努力将英国国籍传给其妻子和子女。第三,尽管嫁给其他一夫一妻制,嫁给中东基督徒的英国出生妇女也面临类似的问题。在1930年代,英国政府成立了一个委员会来解决这些问题,但委员会未能找到解决办法,部分原因是像英国这样的成员支持对妇女的种族/民族掩护,因此拒绝考虑给予妇女平等权利在国籍上。结果,在两次世界大战期间,与不同种族和民族的男人结婚的妇女仍然容易受到抛弃和离婚的影响。这些问题既证实了帝国主义心态的重要性,也证实了两难境地远远超出了正式帝国。

更新日期:2019-05-20
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