at decreases their access to their husbands' love, sexual favors, labor, and income contribution because they gain in terms of time for their own sleep, labor, and a certain degree of autonomy in terms of being able to control the money they earn and to get involved in marketing away from home (Safilios-Rothschild, 1983). In some provinces and countries in sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, land is a scarce resource, and it is possible that additional wives become more threatening and less acceptable to first wives....
