Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands

by Christine Ward Gailey

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Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women's subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.

Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes women's status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292724586

ISBN13:9780292724587

Release Date:December 1987

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Cultural Marriage & Family Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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