Engels was located in the center of the feminist debate in Korea in 1980's. Now as the questions of sexuality like sexual harrassment, sexual violence and sex industry arise, Engels and the debates about his book The Origin of the family, private property and the state seem to be forgotten. On the other hand concepts of 'middle-range theories' like 'individualization', 'agency', 'practice', 'social space' get academic and social interests in sociology, cultural anthropology and feminist researches. In this paper I will try to re-read Engels' book above by means of these concepts. Doing so, I will contrast a socially constructed and institutionalized 'system' to a process of 'individualization'. 'Individualization' is here understood as dynamics which leads to system change. Processes of female individualization differs from those of male one. In contrast to male individualization female individualization has two steps. One happens in the middle of the kinship system, that is to say, in the institutionalizing of patrilineal kinship system. With the coming class society female individualization is at last historically formed. What remains also blank in Engels' book is the social networking and social space of women in the process of individualization, especially in the patrilineal kinship.
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