Family and kinship are recurrent topics in Anna Oppo’s research, blending with studies on women’s conditions, the gender division of labour, and the relationship between gender and power. The essay dedicated to this great scholar highlights the innovative features of her research perspective. Breaking away from well-established practices in sociological research, Anna Oppo chose to pay attention to subjectivities and how, in unfolding, they interact with the mechanisms of social regulation and play an active role in social change. Hence, her original approach to the relationship between women and the family, which is still inspiring today. Anna Oppo’s research recognises women as taking a leading role in the interlacing of solid family relationships based on reciprocity, which is intertwined with the rules of the world of production. Women also play a key role in the dynamic relationship between domestic life and the community through “policies” that are not or were not strategies as such (choosing a partner, managing one’s fertility). But rather, and here lies another of Oppo’s key components in her research, these policies need to be recognised and understood by representatives of official policies in order to implement sensible and effective reform initiatives. Oppo’s research, which can also be reconstructed through an initial bibliography on these topics, is the result and inherent part of an intellectual environment that encouraged the renewal of human and social science, in the broadest sense. It offers a model for a committed and conscious relationship between the world of research and the political government of the territory: this open weave of names and study topics is enriched with other protagonists and other chapters of research that the Department of Political Science has conducted and created on the topic of the family. These include Anna Oppo’s active participation in the Specialisation School in Sardinian Studies.