| Strong Mothers, Weak Wives |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Chapter One— Introduction |
 | Chapter Two— The Question of Difference |
| • | Similarity, Inclusion, and Assimilation |
| • | Difference and the Challenge to a Male Paradigm |
| • | Women and the Family |
| Women as Mothers |
| • | O'Brien's Reproductive Consciousness |
| • | Ruddick's Maternal Thinking |
| • | Rich's Lesbian Continuum |
| Women as Wives |
| • | Summary |
| 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 |
| Chapter Ten— Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |