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
 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
 collapse sectionChapter Ten—  Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society
 expand sectionIndividualism and Sexism
 collapse sectionWhat Is Happening to the Nuclear Family?
 •Trends in Marriage
 expand sectionFathers, Mothers, and Trends in Parenting
 •Women in the Public Sphere
 •In Conclusion

 expand sectionNotes
  References
 expand sectionIndex
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