{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-9780292724587","title":"Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christine Ward Gailey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage \u0026amp; Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592033910935,"sku":"9780292724587","price":3895.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780292724587.webp?v=1774975787","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-gender-hierarchy-and-state-formation-in-the-tongan-islands-9780292724587","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}