Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

by Chris Knight

Book Overview

This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women. "Chris Knight has drawn widely on classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300063083
• ISBN13: 9780300063080
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"