Feminist contributions to the study of kinship have significantly transformed the way anthropologists and sociologists understand family, gender relations, and social reproduction. Traditional kinship studies largely focused on descent, inheritance, marriage alliances, and male-centered social structures, often ignoring women’s experiences and contributions. Feminist scholars challenged these approaches by highlighting the importance of gender, power, domestic labour, and women’s agency in shaping kinship systems. Early feminist critiques emerged as a response to classical anthropological theories that treated kinship as a neutral social institution. Scholars argued that kinship relations are deeply connected with gender inequality and the distribution of power between men and women. Feminist anthropologists examined how family structures often reproduce patriarchal relations by controlling women’s sexuality, labour, and reproductive capacities. They emphasized that kinship cannot be understood without analysing women’s social positions and everyday experiences. One of the major contributions of feminist kinship studies was the recognition of domestic labour as a significant area of social analysis. Feminist scholars argued that household work, childcare, and emotional support