Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: The Rise of Familialism -- 1. Familialism and the Republican Social Contract -- 2. Kinship and the Structuralist Social Contract -- 3. The Circulation of Structuralism in the French Public Sphere -- Part Two: The Critique of Familialism -- 4. The "Quiet Revolution" in Family Policy and Family Law -- 5. Fatherless Societies and Anti-Oedipal Philosophies -- Part Three: The Return of Familialism -- 6. Alternative Kinships and Republican Structuralism -- Epilogue: Kinship, Ethics, and the Nation -- Bibliography -- Index.