1. Gender, reproduction, and kinship -- 2. The evolution of kinship and gender -- 3. The power of patrilines -- 4. Through the mother -- 5. Double, bilateral, and cognatic descent -- 6. Marriage -- 7. A history of Euro-American kinship and gender -- 8. Kinship, gender, and contemporary social problems -- 9. Kinship, gender, and the new reproductive technologies : The beginning of the end?
