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