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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Population Politics, Cultural Struggles | |
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| A Crisis of Births | |
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| Why "Culture"? | |
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| Entering the Field | |
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| Nicoletta: Sacrifices Unfulfilled | |
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| Cultural Politics and the Quiet Revolution | |
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| Family Tree, Revolutionary Roots | |
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| A Quiet Revolution | |
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| A Peasant Protest | |
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| Rags and History | |
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| Diffuse Industry and the Family | |
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| The Labyrinth of History | |
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| Dust and Documents | |
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| Weavers and Wet Nurses | |
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| A Sold Woman | |
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| The Last Laugh | |
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| Fieldwork, Sweater Work | |
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| Locating Diffuse Industry | |
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| Jealousy and Fieldwork | |
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| Sweater Work | |
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| Hidden Labor | |
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| The Apprenticeship | |
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| Family Firms, Family Obligations | |
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| Impressions | |
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| Buttons and a Family Firm | |
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| Rushing to Rush | |
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| Searching for Self-Respect | |
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| Integrated yet Unending Obligations | |
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| Displaying Class, Consuming Distinction | |
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| Order as Morality | |
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| Genterella, or Low-Class Folks | |
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| Praying for a Sibling | |
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| Catholics and Communists | |
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| Antidotes to Consumerism | |
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| La Cucina Povera | |
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| Poverty versus Prosperity | |
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| Labors of Love, Love's Labors | |
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| Real Love | |
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| Uneasy Love | |
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| Rags, Romance, and Negotiated Love | |
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| Unmaking and Remaking Love | |
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| Sunflowers and an Etruscan Tomb | |
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| A Challenge to the Priest | |
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| Son Robbery | |
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| Mother Robbery | |
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| A Hard Move | |
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| Public Prying | |
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| Nuptial Beds and Virgins | |
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| Unrequited Love | |
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| Rational Love | |
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| Stigma and Family-Making | |
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| Love as Risky Business | |
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| Hues of Love | |
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| Gendered Myths, Gender Strife | |
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| Noble Clues to an Ignoble Myth (Myth #1) | |
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| The Journey toward Equality (Myth #2) | |
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| Culture of Responsibility | |
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| Responsibility and School | |
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| The Traitor | |
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| The Craft of Motherhood | |
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| Responsibility and Food | |
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| The Men in the House (Myth #3) | |
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| Myth Puncturing | |
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| Demographic Alarms, Racial Reverberations | |
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| Demographic Alarms | |
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| Racism Clothed as Culture | |
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| Panic over Immigrants | |
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| A Crisis of Birth | |
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| Italy's Strange Race Question | |
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| The "Octopus," Criminal Anthropology, and Racial Formation | |
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| Demographic Malaise | |
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| Irrational Sex | |
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| Sneaky Pronatalism as Policy | |
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| Challenging Whiteness | |
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| Consequences of Alarm | |
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| Globalizing Policy, Policing Populations | |
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| Global Fertility and Policy Trends | |
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| The Three Pigs: A Local Theory | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |