{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-paperback-softback-9780292724587","title":"Kinship to Kingship; Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292724587","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKinship to Kingship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristine Ward Gailey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292724587\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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\n\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\n\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part One: The Quest for Origins \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. The Subordination of Women: Gender in Transitions from Kinship to Class \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. State Formation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Two: Gender and Kinship Relations in Precontact Tonga \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Authority and Ambiguity: Rethinking Tongan Kinship \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. The Reproduction of Ambiguity: Succession Disputes, Marriage Patterns, and Foreigners \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Division of Labor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Exchange and Value \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Gender Relations at Contact \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Three: Conversion, Commodities, and State Formation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. Early Contact \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. Missionaries: The Crusade for Christian Civilization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. A Native Kingdom: Creating Class and Gender Stratification \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. Changing Production: Commodities, Tribute, and Forced Labor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12. Dialectics of Class and State Formation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix: Sources and Methods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530855379224,"sku":"9780292724587","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-paperback-softback-9780292724587","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}