CONTENTS
Preface
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Introduction
Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson
1. In the Beginning . . .: The Origins of the Sexual
Division of Labour and the Development of the First
Human Societies
Lila Leibowitz
2. The Dawn of Lineage Societies: The Origins of Women’s 76
Oppression.
Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte
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3. Property Forms, Political Power and Female Labour
in the Origins of Class and State Societies
Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson
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4. Slavery and Women
Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte
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5. The Processes of Women’s Subordination in Primitive 169
and Archaic Greece
Monique Saliou
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Authors
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