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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
In this book Professor Peggy Sanday provides a ground-breaking examination of power and dominance in male-female relationships. By using cross-cultural research on over 150 tribal societies, the author systematically establishes the full range of variation in male and female power roles and suggests a theoretical framework for explaining this variation.
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.