Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.
Trade Review"Gailey has tacked with confidence and thoroughness a range of extremely challenging issues fundamental to feminist anthropology and Polynesian ethnography in a pioneering and ambitious analysis for which she is to be congratulated." - Journal of Polynesian Society
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: The Quest for Origins
- 1. The Subordination of Women: Gender in Transitions from Kinship to Class
- 2. State Formation
- Part Two: Gender and Kinship Relations in Precontact Tonga
- 3. Authority and Ambiguity: Rethinking Tongan Kinship
- 4. The Reproduction of Ambiguity: Succession Disputes, Marriage Patterns, and Foreigners
- 5. Division of Labor
- 6. Exchange and Value
- 7. Gender Relations at Contact
- Part Three: Conversion, Commodities, and State Formation
- 8. Early Contact
- 9. Missionaries: The Crusade for Christian Civilization
- 10. A Native Kingdom: Creating Class and Gender Stratification
- 11. Changing Production: Commodities, Tribute, and Forced Labor
- 12. Dialectics of Class and State Formation
- Appendix: Sources and Methods
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
