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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Toward a Comparative History of Gender, Kinship and Power | 1 | |
| 1 | The Father, the Phallus, and the Seminal Word: Dilemmas of Patrilineality in Ancient Judaism | 27 |
| 2 | Blood Ties and Semen Ties: Consanguinity and Agnation in Roman Law | 43 |
| 3 | Kinship Between the Lines: The Patriline, the Concubine and the Adopted Son in Late Imperial China | 67 |
| 4 | Musings on Matriliny: Understandings and Social Relations among the Sursurunga of New Ireland | 81 |
| 5 | Family Trees and the Construction of Kinship in Renaissance Italy | 101 |
| 6 | Marriage and Women's Subjectivity in a Patrilineal System: The Case of Early Modern Bologna | 115 |
| 7 | Male Authority and Female Autonomy: A Study of the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India | 131 |
| 8 | The Limits of Patriliny: Kinship, Gender and Women's Speech Practices in Rural North India | 149 |
| 9 | Cooking Inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangte Idioms of Marriage and Procreation | 177 |
| 10 | Patriarchal Provisions for Widows and Orphans in Medieval London | 201 |
| 11 | Work and Residence of "Women Alone" in the Context of a Patrilineal System (Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Northern Italy) | 215 |
| 12 | Heading Households and Surviving in a Man's World: Brazilian Women in the Nineteenth Century | 233 |
| 13 | Illegitimacy and Low-Wage Economy in Highland Austria and Jamaica | 245 |
| 14 | Women and Kinship in Propertyless Classes in Western Europe in the Nineteenth Century | 261 |
| 15 | The Social Construction of Wife and Mother: Women in Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1917 | 275 |
| 16 | Matrifocal Males: Gender, Perception and Experience of the Domestic Domain in Brazil | 287 |
| 17 | The Waxing and Waning of Matrilineality in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Historical Variations in an Ambilineal System, 1500-1900 | 305 |
| 18 | Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England | 319 |
| 19 | Let's Go to My Place: Residence, Gender and Power in a Mende Community | 335 |
| 20 | The Land, the Law and Legitimate Children: Thinking through Gender, Kinship and Nation in the British Virgin Islands | 351 |
| Index | 365 | |
| Contributors | 373 |
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