Family Politics

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Nature, Marital Unity, and Contract in Modern Political Thought 1

Part I: The Ballast of Nature and the Ends of the Family

2 Locke and the Invention of the Modern Family

3 Rousseau and the Romance of Family Life

Part II: The Movin g Ballast of History

4 Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament

5 In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists and Positivist Defenses of the Family

Part III: Liberation and the Movement toward the Family's End

6 The City and the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision

7 Marx, Engels, and the Abolition of the Family

8 Freud, Russell, and the Liberated Family

9 Feminism and the Family

Part IV: The Old Family and a New Nature

10 Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Family

11 A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity and the Purposes of the Family

12 What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions and Lessons

Notes

Bibliography

Index