{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-9780292724587","title":"Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003e Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women's subordination develop? \u003ci\u003eKinship to Kingship\u003c\/i\u003e was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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, consumption, and reproduction to a class-based state society. Although this study focuses on one group of islands, Tonga, in the South Pacific, the author discusses processes that can be seen through the neocolonial world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kin-based society to one organized along class lines \u003ci\u003enecessarily\u003c\/i\u003e entails the subordination of women. And the opposite is also held to be true: state and class formation cannot be understood without analyzing gender and the status of women. Of interest to students of anthropology, political science, sociology, and women's studies, this work is a major contribution to social history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Ward Gailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292724587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine Ward Gailey is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of California Riverside. Her research centers on gender hierarchies in the context of state dynamics, viewed comparatively and historically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40632879579251,"sku":"9.78029E+12","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bfa17a2d-0f07-4fd7-97b8-9cc34f82b9b7.jpg?v=1671634185","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-9780292724587","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}