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Book Synopsis
Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
1. Anthropological Strategies
2. A Place in the Feminist Debate

PART ONE
3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the
New Guinea Highlands
4. Domains: Male and Female Models
5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims
6. Work: Exploitation at Issue

PART TWO
7. Some Definitions
8. Relations which Separate
9. Forms which Propagate
10. Cause and Effect

CONCLUSION
11. Domination
12. Comparison

Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1990
      ISBN13: 9780520072022, 978-0520072022
      ISBN10: 0520072022
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      Anthropology Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.

      Table of Contents
      Preface
      Acknowledgments

      INTRODUCTION
      1. Anthropological Strategies
      2. A Place in the Feminist Debate

      PART ONE
      3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the
      New Guinea Highlands
      4. Domains: Male and Female Models
      5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims
      6. Work: Exploitation at Issue

      PART TWO
      7. Some Definitions
      8. Relations which Separate
      9. Forms which Propagate
      10. Cause and Effect

      CONCLUSION
      11. Domination
      12. Comparison

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Author Index
      Subject Index

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