Near of Kin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Cover Image for Vol. 1 V
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Contents XV
6. List of Figures XXI
7. List of Text Boxes XXIII
8. Introduction 1
9. Section I: Baroque Europe: The Bible Tells Me So
10. Chapter 1 Introit: The Wife’s Sister 31
11. Chapter 2 The Culture of Law 82
12. Chapter 3 How to Read the Book 124
13. Chapter 4 Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque 160
14. Chapter 5 Lineage and Alliance in the Seventeenth Century 205
15. Section II: From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Sentimental Journeys
16. Chapter 1 Kinship: The New Alliance System 245
17. Chapter 2 Introduction to the Brother/Sister Imaginary 284
18. Chapter 3 Moral Sentiment: A New Language of Cultural Meaning and Foundation for Law 337
19. Chapter 4 The Search for the Same: Familial/Familiar 371
20. Section III: Fin-et-Début-de-Siècle Europe and America
21. Chapter 1 Introduction to the Problem of the Mother and Son 405
22. Chapter 2 The Biology of Motherhood 451
23. Chapter 3 Making Kin around 1900: The Nature of Nurture 487
24. Chapter 4 Kinship Structures at the Turn of the Century 521
25. Intermezzo
26. Incest Becomes a Biological Problem 559
27. Section IV: Postwar Kinning: The Fall (After a Brief Rise) of the Nuclear Family
28. Chapter 1 Kinship and the Nuclear Family 663
29. Chapter 2 The Family Spun in a Web of Power 751
30. Chapter 3 Introduction to the Father-Daughter Problematic 789
31. Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy as Hegemonic Discourses 834
32. Coda. Brother/Sister Redivivus
33. Age of Genetics, Age of Siblings, 1995–2020 909
34. Epilogue
35. Near of Kin 975
36. Figure Credits 989
37. Bibliography 993
38. Index 1049