Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology),Used

Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology),Used

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Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did womens subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.Using a Marxistfeminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes womens status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution, consumption, and reproduction to a classbased 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.This ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kinbased society to one organized along class lines necessarily 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 womens studies, this work is a major contribution to social history.

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