Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Question of Difference 16
7. 3. Defining Difference: Psychological Perspectives 44
8. 4. Women's Mothering and Male Misogyny 71
9. 5. Mothers versus the Male Peer Group 96
10. 6. Fathers and Difference 128
11. 7. Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism 157
12. 8. Psychoanalysis and the Making of Mothers into Wives 186
13. 9. Women as Wives: Cultural and Historical Variations 221
14. 10. Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society 246
15. Notes 271
16. References 299
17. Index 329