Women in Between - Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuses on gender relations rather than on women alone. Re-issued now, Women in Between examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyzes the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce, and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.

List of contents

Part 1 Part I: Producers and Transactors
Chapter 2 Hagen Society
Chapter 3 Residence and Work: The Woman with Her Husband's Kin
Chapter 4 The Household
Chapter 5 The Roads of Marriage
Chapter 6 Kin at Her Back
Chapter 7 Producers and Transactors
Part 8 Part II: The Independent Woman
Chapter 9 Pollution and Poison
Chapter 10 Marital Stability
Chapter 11 Focus for Blame
Chapter 12 Settlement of Disputes
Chapter 13 Judicial Status
Chapter 14 Status, Incorporation and Commitment
Chapter 15 Appendices

About the author

Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Strathern, Strathern Marilyn
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.1995
• EAN: 9780847677856
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-7785-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Classics in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Papua New Guinea