Women in Between: Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

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This ethnographic text, first published in 1971, is re-issued with a new foreword by Deborah Cewertz. The book examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyses the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society. There is a war between the sexes in Hagen which has the result of allowing women, within the terms of the system, a degree of independence.

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Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).