Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual EqualityExtrait de l'introduction : "The search for women's overall ar fundamental position long ago ar far wawy is an outcome of the confrontation between social darwinist anthropology and the feminist and socialist movements over sexism here and now. ... Women have been fighting for equl rights for well over one hundred years. The center of the struggle lies in changing institutionalized pattterns of behaviors and allocations of social roles. All behavior is informed and shaped by ideas, by way of seeing the world, as well as by standards for what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A marxist and feminist anthropology can affrim the reality of equality in other times and places and increase our understanding of how to obtain such a social order for ourselves. This book is an attempt to develop such a way of seeing and of informing our actions." |
Contents
Anthropology against Women | 24 |
The Case against Universal Subordination | 65 |
Sisters Wives and Mode of Production I | 96 |
Mbuti | 125 |
Lovedu | 139 |
Mpondo | 163 |
Mode of Production II Sex and Class | 193 |
Buganda | 198 |
Sisters and Rulers in West Africa | 216 |
Conclusions | 242 |
| 253 | |
| 269 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affines African anthropology authority Bachofen band beer bridewealth brothers and sisters Buganda capitalist cattle claim clan class societies clientage clients clientship collective culture Dahomean Dahomey daughters developed district chiefs dominance economic egalitarian Engels equality estates European father female feminist household human hunting husband Ibid Igbo inheritance involved kin corporations kin groups king kinship Krige Krige and Krige labor land lineage livestock Lovedu male Malinowski marriage married marxist Mbuti means of production men's mode of production molimo mother motherhood Mpondo Mujaji Nguni nineteenth century nonclass Onitsha organization particular patrilineages patrilineal pattern peasant precapitalist productive forces productive means productive relations productive relationships queen rela relations of production roles royal rulers ruling class ruling-class sexism sexual sisterhood sisterly slave trade social darwinism social darwinist Sotho Spencer subordinate suggests tasks tion transformed umzi village warfare wealth wife wives woman women women's place