Women in between: Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea FROM THE PUBLISHER
In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, "Women In Between". Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuses on gender relations rather than on women alone. Re-issued now, "Women in Between" examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyzes 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.
Author Biography: Marilyn Strathern, professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, is the author of "Partial Connections" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991).
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