| 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 |
| Multiple Pressures on Women to Mother |
| • | Mothers and Becoming Human |
| Childhood Gender Segregation |
| The Male Peer Group and Heterosexuality |
| • | Summary and a Look Ahead |
| 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 |