336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1983, Patriarchal Precedents is an excavation of the term patriarchy. Rosalind Coward shoes how the debates about patriarchy and matriarchy were crucial to social theories in the nineteenth century, discussing how the resolution of these debates resulted in our present ways of (mis)understanding the family, sexual relations and sexual characteristics. Rosalind Coward argues... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 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
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Rosalind Coward
