Acknowledgements Introduction1. The dissolution of the patriarchal theory 2. The meaning of mother-right 3. Sexual antagonism: theories of sex in the social sciences 4. The impasse on kinship 5. The concept of family in Marxist theory 6. The woman question and the early Marxist left 7. The patriarchal family in Freudian theory 8. Psychoanalysis and anthropology: the interpretation of social practices Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index