Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society

by Maria Lepowsky

Book Overview

Challenging the portrayal of sexual inequality as a universal condition, Lepowsky presents a vivid account of Vanatinai, a matrilineal society in New Guinea.

Contradticting scholars who consider sexual inequality a universal condition, Fruit of the Motherland reveals an exceptional society in which women have equivalent access to power and prestige and significant control over the means of production.

Lepowsky presents an ethnography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231081219
• ISBN13: 9780231081214
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher