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