Kinship and gender
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Linda Stone.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780813344027
Subjects: Kinship; Sex role; Human reproduction; Matrilineal kinship; Patrilineal kinship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Gender, reproduction, and kinship; title: 2. The evolution of kinship and gender; title: 3. The power of patrilines; title: 4. Through the mother; title: 5. Double, bilateral, and cognatic descent; title: 6. Marriage; title: 7. A history of Euro-American kinship and gender; title: 8. Kinship, gender, and contemporary social problems; title: 9. Kinship, gender, and the new reproductive technologies : The beginning of the end?