Women, Wives, Mothers

One of the most important series of events in modern times--the restructuring of sex roles to adapt them to modern life--is here chronicled from the perspective of a lifetime of studying and writing about women

George W. Bonham

Introduction; I: Sex Differences; One: Research on Sex Differences: An Overview of the State of the Art; II: Young Women; Two: A Developmental Paradox; Three: Sex-Role Transcendence and Sex-Role Transcenders; Four: Adolescence and Socialization for Motherhood; III: Mothers in Transition; Five: Ages and Stages of Motherhood; Six: Middle Motherhood; Seven: Late Motherhood; IV: Age, Class, Race; Eight: Age and Attitudes on Feminist Issues; Nine: Class and Feminist Issues; Ten: The Impact of Sexism and Racisnt on Employment Status and Earnings; V: The Wider Scene; Eleven: The litter Fruits of Extreme Sex-Mole Specialization; Twelve: Policy-Relevant Research on Motherhood: The State of the Art; Thirteen: New Societal Forms