Table of Contents:
  • Freedom of the heart: men and women critique marriage
  • The political power of love: marriage, regeneration, and citizenship
  • Broken bonds: the revolutionary practice of divorce
  • "War between brothers and sisters": egalitarian inheritance and gender politics
  • Natural children, abandoned mothers, and emancipated fathers: illegitimacy and unwed motherhood
  • Reconstituting the social after the terror: the backlash against family innovations
  • The genesis of the civil code.