Eva Figes in Patriarchal Attitudes … is concerned to demolish the false assumptions of the past which have made … [the drive for equality between the sexes] seem so necessary…. Only the last chapter of her book is devoted to the present, and here I think Eva Figes rather skimps the case for the future set up by her excellent historical swipe. I am all for equal pay, abolition of marriage (and therefore divorce and illegitimacy), love without economic strings, and more nursery schools. But if we are to introduce these changes we must also have a better understanding of what men and women in general really want and need in a free situation. (p. 501)

Paddy Kitchen, "How We Live," in New Statesman, Vol. 84, No. 2143, April 14, 1972, pp. 500-01.∗