| 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 |
 | Chapter Nine— Women as Wives: Cultural and Historical Variations |
| • | Matrilineal Horticultural Societies |
| • | Matrifocal Enclaves in Class Societies |
| Agricultural Societies, the Rise of the State, and Patriarchy |
| The Women's Movement |
| • | Summary |
| Chapter Ten— Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |