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9780252010040 Academic Inspection Copy

Sisters and Wives

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF SEXUAL EQUALITY
  • ISBN-13: 9780252010040
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Karen Sacks
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1982
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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''A lively and well-researched analysis of women's roles in the kinship systems of precapitalist African societies turns out to be pertinent to women's struggle for equality everywhere.''-- Ms. ''For any theorist of social organization this is an important book.''-- American Anthropologist ''For anthropologists, historians, social theorists, and social activists, this is an important and powerful work.''-- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
@SACKS\Sisters and Wives@''An anthropologist with acute historical sensibilities dissects anthropology's social Darwinist roots and then provides a theoretical and empirical explication of relations between women's status and models of production... Important and powerful.'' -- The Annals
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