{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-christine-ward-gailey-9780292724587","title":"Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003eHave 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\u003eUsing 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\u003eThis 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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292724586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292724587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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","brand":"Christine Ward Gailey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045622903039,"sku":"9780292724587","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_398d069f-ff42-4e5d-a3b7-d9a1d238655e.jpg?v=1684979776","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-christine-ward-gailey-9780292724587","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}