Christine Ward Gailey: 2 books
Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love
Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption...
Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey...