Strong Mothers, Weak Wives

  Preface
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionChapter One—  Introduction
 expand sectionChapter Two—  The Question of Difference
 expand sectionChapter Three—  Defining Difference:  Psychological Perspectives
 expand sectionChapter Four—  Women's Mothering and Male Misogyny
 expand sectionChapter Five—  Mothers versus the Male Peer Group
 collapse sectionChapter Six—  Fathers and Difference
 Examining the Father-Differentiating Hypothesis
 Fathers and Differentiated Sexual Interaction
 collapse sectionFathers and Male-Dominated Heterosexuality
 Gay Males
 Lesbians
 The Social Meaning of Sexual Preference
 Summary:  Mothers versus Fathers
 expand sectionChapter Seven—  Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism
 expand sectionChapter Eight—  Psychoanalysis and the Making of Mothers into Wives
 expand sectionChapter Nine—  Women as Wives:  Cultural and Historical Variations
 expand sectionChapter Ten—  Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society

 expand sectionNotes
  References
 expand sectionIndex

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