Nature, marital unity, and contract in modern political thought
Pt. I. The ballast of nature and the ends of the family. Locke and the invention of the modern family
Rousseau and the romance of family life
Pt. II. The moving ballast of history. Hegel's modern marital unity : more than a contract, less than a sacrament
In Hegel's shadow : French sociologists and positivist defenses of the family
Pt. III. Liberation and the movement toward the family's end. The city and the soul mate : Mill's late liberal vision
Marx, Engels, and the abolition of the family
Freud, Russell, and the liberated family
Feminism and the family
Pt. IV. The old family and a new nature. Positivism supplemented : anatomy, evolution, and the family
A second sailing? : recovering marital unity and the purposes of the family
What is to be thought? : tensions and lessons.