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Index
Cover
About the Authors
Other Books by These Authors
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword (2004)
ONE In the Ruins of Patriarchy
The Woman Question
The New Masculinism
Feminist and Domestic Solutions
Science and the Triumph of Domesticity
THE RISE OF THE EXPERTS
TWO Witches, Healers, and Gentleman Doctors
The Witch Hunts
The Conflict over Healing Comes to America
Healing as a Commodity
The Popular Health Movement
Lady Doctors Join the Competition
THREE Science and the Ascent of the Experts
The Moral Salvation of Medicine
The Laboratory Mystique
Medicine and the Big Money
Exorcising the Midwives
THE REIGN OF THE EXPERTS
FOUR The Sexual Politics of Sickness
A Mysterious Epidemic
Marriage: The Sexual-Economic Relation
Femininity as a Disease
Men Evolve, Women Devolve
The Dictatorship of the Ovaries
The Uterus vs. the Brain
The Rest Cure
Subverting the Sick Role: Hysteria
FIVE Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework
The Domestic Void
The Romance of the Home
Domestic Scientists Put the House in Order
The Crusade Against Germs
The Manufacture of New Tasks
Feminism Embraces Domestic Science
“Right Living” in the Slums
Domesticity Without the Science
SIX The Century of the Child
Discovery of the Child
The “Child Question” and the Woman Question
The Mothers’ Movement
The Experts Move In
SEVEN Motherhood as Pathology
The Expert Allies with the Child
The Doctors Demand Permissiveness
Libidinal Motherhood
Bad Mothers
“Momism” and the Crisis in American Masculinity
The Obligatory Oedipus Complex
Communism and the Crisis of Overpermissiveness
THE FALL OF THE EXPERTS
EIGHT From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual Marketplace
Mid-century Masochism
Gynecology as Psychotherapy
Revolt of the Masochistic Mom
The Rise of the Single Girl
Spread of the Singles Culture
Popular Psychology and the Single Lifestyle
Afterword: The End of the Romance (2004)
Notes
Acknowledgments
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