Sex and gender hierarchies

A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles - and expectations - of women and men vary across cultures. They document the rich and often surprising diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among both human and non-human primates.

In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of comparison to include female/male relationships among non-human primates and introducing fresh case studies which range from lemurs to hominids, from Japanese peasants to male strippers in Florida, from skeletal remains of a Korean queen to mother/child conversationsin Samoa.