Cover -- Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Nature, Marital Unity, and Contract in Modern Political Thought -- Part 1. The Ballast of Nature and the Ends of the Family -- 2. Locke and the Invention of the Modern Family -- 3. Rousseau and the Romance of Family Life -- Part 2. The Moving Ballast of History -- 4. Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament -- 5. In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists and Positivist Defenses of the Family -- Part 3. Liberation and the Movement toward the Family's End -- 6. The City and the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision -- 7. Marx, Engels, and the Abolition of the Family -- 8. Freud, Russell, and the Liberated Family -- 9. Feminism and the Family -- Part 4. The Old Family and a New Nature -- 10. Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Family -- 11. A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity and the Purposes of the Family -- 12. What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions and Lessons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.