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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship
A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship
- Chapter:
- (p.58) A Review of The Elementary Structures of Kinship
- Source:
- Feminist Writings
- Author(s):
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, Véronique Zaytzeff, Frederick Morrison- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252039003.003.0007
French sociology has been dormant for a long time. Lévi-Strauss’s book must be greeted as an event heralding a spectacular awakening. The efforts of the Durkheim school to organize social facts in an intelligible manner proved to be disappointing since they relied on questionable metaphysical hypotheses and on equally doubtful historical postulates....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
