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Women's Work, Men's Property
The Origins of Gender and Class
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Women's Work, Men's Property
The Origins of Gender and Class
About this book
"To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena did have social origins, origins that must be sought in sociohistorical events and processes."
In this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years.
Women's Work, Men's Property brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken by the oppression of women in archaic Greece.
Women's Work, Men's Property will be welcomed by teachers and students of women's studies and anyone with an interest in the biological, psychological and historical roots of sexual inequality.
In this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years.
Women's Work, Men's Property brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken by the oppression of women in archaic Greece.
Women's Work, Men's Property will be welcomed by teachers and students of women's studies and anyone with an interest in the biological, psychological and historical roots of sexual inequality.
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General Index
Aegean, 149, 173, 180, 182, 190, 194
age-class, age-group, 98
aggression, 2, 3, 9–11, 28, 113
agriculture, female role in (see also horticulture), 5, 37, 77–80, 84, 87, 88, 174–6, 178, 179, 183–5
agriculture, male role in, 5, 78, 79, 115, 179
Akan, 95
alienation, relation of, 84–6, 89, 92–4, 96, 99, 107, 166
ancestor worship, 127
Anglo-Saxon society, 150
Arapesh, 10
aristocracy (see also ruling class), 42, 143, 144, 147–50, 152, 154, 186, 189, 195
arms, taboo on women bearing, 91, 92, 181
Ashanti, 23, 95
Athenian democracy, 183, 192, 194, 196
Athenian tragedy, 39, 150, 190, 181, 194–9
Athens, 22, 149, 157, 164, 176, 193, 194
Australian aborigines, 15, 116
avunculocality see residence rules
Aztec society, 142, 145
Babylonia, 147, 154
Bakongo, 98
balanced reciprocity see reciprocity
Bambara, 104
Bamilke (Cameroon), 147, 160
Bandia, 159
Baoulé, 95
Bari, 195
Baruga, 90, 91, 103
Bellacoola see Native American societies Bedik, 91, 104
Béti, 83
‘big man’, 33, 130
bigamy, 186
bilineality, 94, 95, 100
biodeterminism, biological determinism, 6, 10, 49, 50, 60, 86
brideprice, bridewealth, 83–...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction: ‘Explanations’ of Male Dominance
- In the Beginning … : The Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour and the Development of the First Human Societies
- The Dawn of Lineage Societies: The Origins of Women’s Oppression
- Property Forms, Political Power, and Female Labour in the Origins of Class and State Societies
- Slavery and Women
- The Processes of Women’s Subordination in Primitive and Archaic Greece
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index