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Understanding women's psychological responses to various forms of patriarchy / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago -- Historical circumstances and biological proclivities surrounding patriarchy / Naomi Quinn -- Growing up female in Sorth India / Susan C. Seymour -- To make her understand with love: expectations for emotion work in North Indian families / Jocelyn Marrow -- Perspectives on gender roles and relations across three generations of Maya women in Southern Mexico / Adriana M. Manago -- Contested terrains of female education in rural muslim Pakistan / Ayesha Khurshid -- Moving beyond notions of resistance and accommodation: understanding how women navigate conflicting models of marriage in rural Mexico / Holly F. Mathews -- What women's experiences in disadvantaged families in Ankara, Turkey, have to tell about patriarchy / Gülden Güvenç -- Theorizing female consent: familism, motherhood, and middle-class feminine subjectivity in contemporary South Korea / Kelly H. Chong -- Property, patriarchy, and the Chinese state / Leta Hong Fincher -- Reflections on kidnap and rape culture: a cross-cultural comparison of patriarchy / Cynthia Werner -- Charting a way forward / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago.

Abstract
This article seeks to demonstrate that the gendered structuring of property relations in England can be understood in terms of the historical development of modes of production and reproduction. Society at the barbarian chiefdom, feudal, and capitalist stages of development is analysed. It is argued that gender relations within barbarian chiefdoms were contradictory, and that these contradictions had detrimental implications for women under feudalism. Given this historical legacy, it is then argued that the specificity of capitalist property rights laid the basis for the division of classes along the lines of gender.