Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Basic Ideas -- 1. Equivalence and Similarity -- 2. The Unity of Husband and Wife -- 2. The Prohibited Degrees of Marriage and Incest -- 1. Reformation Changes -- 2. The Deceased Wife's Sister Controversy -- 3. Twentieth-century Changes -- 3. Degree Reckoning in Mourning -- 4. Kinship Terminology and Marriage Preferences -- 1. Kinship Terms -- 2. Marrying Up or Down -- 5. Divorce -- 1. Early History
2. The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 -- Appendices -- 6. The Marriage Bond -- 1. Property -- 2. Sex -- Appendix -- Part 2 -- 7. Popular Explanations -- 1. Incest and In-breeding -- 2. Divorce and the Emancipation of Women -- 8. Experts Past and Present -- 1. Early Theories of 'Incest' -- 2. Anthropologists and 'Exogamy' -- 9. Fact and Theory -- 10. Indigenous Structuring -- 11. The Future -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Chronological Table -- Index
