Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Toward a Comparative History of Gender, Kinship and Power | p. 1 |
The Father, the Phallus, and the Seminal Word: Dilemmas of Patrilineality in Ancient Judaism | p. 27 |
Blood Ties and Semen Ties: Consanguinity and Agnation in Roman Law | p. 43 |
Kinship Between the Lines: The Patriline, the Concubine and the Adopted Son in Late Imperial China | p. 67 |
Musings on Matriliny: Understandings and Social Relations among the Sursurunga of New Ireland | p. 81 |
Family Trees and the Construction of Kinship in Renaissance Italy | p. 101 |
Marriage and Women's Subjectivity in a Patrilineal System: The Case of Early Modern Bologna | p. 115 |
Male Authority and Female Autonomy: A Study of the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India | p. 131 |
The Limits of Patriliny: Kinship, Gender and Women's Speech Practices in Rural North India | p. 149 |
Cooking Inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangte Idioms of Marriage and Procreation | p. 177 |
Patriarchal Provisions for Widows and Orphans in Medieval London | p. 201 |
Work and Residence of "Women Alone" in the Context of a Patrilineal System (Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Northern Italy) | p. 215 |
Heading Households and Surviving in a Man's World: Brazilian Women in the Nineteenth Century | p. 233 |
Illegitimacy and Low-Wage Economy in Highland Austria and Jamaica | p. 245 |
Women and Kinship in Propertyless Classes in Western Europe in the Nineteenth Century | p. 261 |
The Social Construction of Wife and Mother: Women in Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1917 | p. 275 |
Matrifocal Males: Gender, Perception and Experience of the Domestic Domain in Brazil | p. 287 |
The Waxing and Waning of Matrilineality in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Historical Variations in an Ambilineal System, 1500-1900 | p. 305 |
Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England | p. 319 |
Let's Go to My Place: Residence, Gender and Power in a Mende Community | p. 335 |
The Land, the Law and Legitimate Children: Thinking through Gender, Kinship and Nation in the British Virgin Islands | p. 351 |
Index | p. 365 |
Contributors | p. 373 |
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