Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

by Chris Knight

Book Overview

This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300063083
• ISBN13: 9780300063080
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"