The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality

Publisher:  Doubleday, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  1971
Pages:  215pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7480

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Table of Contents

Preface to Third (first English language) Edition (1951)
Preface to the Second Edition (1934)
Preface to the First Edition (1931)

Part I The Origins of Sexual Repression
1. Sex-Economy in Matriarchal Society
2. Economic and Sexual Contradictions among the Trobrianders
3. The Invasion of Sex-Negative Moralism
4. Primitive Work-Democracy - Mother-Right; Father-Right
5. Confirmation and Revisions of the Morgan-Engels Theory
6. The Origin of Clan Division and the Incest Taboo

Part II The Problem of Social Sex-Economy

Appendix: Roheim's "Psychoanalysis of Primitive Cultures"

Index

Subject Headings

• Morality
• Repression
• Sexual Morality
• Sexuality