Women's work, men's property : the origins of gender and class / edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson.

London : Verso, 1986.

220 pages ; 21 cm

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213).

In the beginning / Lila Leibowitz -- The dawn of lineage societies / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte -- Property forms, political power, and female labour in the origins of class and state societies / Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson -- Slavery and women / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte -- The processes of women's subordination in primitive and archaic Greece / Monique Saliou.