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 
2 
3. Property Forms, Political Power and Female Labour 
in the Origins of Class and State Societies 
Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson 
106 
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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