Kinship to KingshipHave women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did womens subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes womens status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution, consumption,