num_pages: 592
description: The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of how this symbolic domain originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biography 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.
language: English
title: Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
titlecomplete: Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
genres: Anthropology, Gender, Goddess, Science, Nonfiction, Gender Studies, Feminism, Sexuality, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Yale University Press