Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality

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Applying data from over 150 tribal societies to scales developed to measure power and dominance, Sanday offers answers to basic questions regarding male and female power. The view that emerges conforms to no particular theoretical perspective.
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Overview

Applying data from over 150 tribal societies to scales developed to measure power and dominance, Sanday offers answers to basic questions regarding male and female power. The view that emerges conforms to no particular theoretical perspective.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521236188
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 4/30/1981
  • Pages: 368

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Plans for Sex-Role Behaviour: 1. Scripts for female power; 2. Scripts for male dominance; Part II. Constructing Sex-Role Plans: 3. The environmental context of metaphors for sexual identities; 4. Plans for the sexual division of labor; 5. Blood, sex, and danger; Part III. The Women's World: 6. The bases for female political and economic power and authority; 7. The decline of the women's world: the effect of colonialism; Part IV. The Dynamics of Male Dominance and Sexual Inequality: 8. The bases for male dominance; 9. Why women?; Part V. Conquerors of the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey: Epilogue; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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