Strong Mothers, Weak Wives

A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. InStrong Mothers, Weak Wivesshe develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into gender inequalities and how this process relates to the structure of the nuclear family and to the social organization of modern societies.

Miriam M. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Question of Difference	p. 16
Defining Difference: Psychological Perspectives	p. 44
Women's Mothering and Male Misogyny	p. 71
Mothers versus the Male Peer Group	p. 96
Fathers and Difference	p. 128
Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism	p. 157
Psychoanalysis and the Making of Mothers into Wives	p. 186
Women as Wives: Cultural and Historical Variations	p. 221
Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society	p. 246
Notes	p. 271
References	p. 299
Index	p. 329
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