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
 expand sectionChapter Six—  Fathers and Difference
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism
 •The Oedipus Complex and Father Dominance
 •The Boy's Oedipus Complex
 •Oedipus versus the Reality of Father-Daughter Incest
 •The Incest Continuum—  From Patriarchal Incest to Daddy's Girl
 •Marrying Daddy:  The Romance Novel
 •Rescuing Daddy's Girls
 expand sectionHomosexuality and Male Dominance
 •Summary:  Fathers Versus Mothers
 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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