Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
1. Anthropological Strategies
2. A Place in the Feminist Debate

PART ONE
3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the
New Guinea Highlands
4. Domains: Male and Female Models
5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims
6. Work: Exploitation at Issue

PART TWO
7. Some Definitions
8. Relations which Separate
9. Forms which Propagate
10. Cause and Effect

CONCLUSION
11. Domination
12. Comparison

Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

Reviews

"Marilyn Strathern's new book is a work of exceptional originality, which will exercise a marked influence over future developments in anthropological theory."--"Times Literary Supplement