{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-1","title":"Kinship to Kingship","description":"\u003cp\u003eHave women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? \u003ccite\u003eKinship to Kingship\u003c\/cite\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\n    \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\n    \u003cp\u003eThis ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kin-based society to one organized along class lines \u003cem\u003enecessarily\u003c\/em\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\n","brand":"Christine Ward Gailey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572746256566,"sku":"9780292733916","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_f72bd21d-7e88-4d85-bd1b-66e1e7f8efb0.jpg?v=1746711833","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}