| 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 |
| Chapter Seven— Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism |
 | Chapter Eight— Psychoanalysis and the Making of Mothers into Wives |
| • | Freud's Conception of Gender Difference |
| • | Freud's Gynecentric Opposition |
| • | Reconstructing Gender |
| • | Separating Gender from Sex |
| Reconstructing Sexuality |
| Gender and Sexuality |
| • | Difference and Sexuality |
| • | Similarity and Sexuality |
| • | Motherhood and Sexuality |
| • | Summary |
| Chapter Nine— Women as Wives: Cultural and Historical Variations |
| Chapter Ten— Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |