Chapter 1 The Wife Gap = 1
Chapter 2 The Heart of Whiteness = 27
Chapter 3 Mystique Chic = 65
Chapter 4 Sex and the Married Woman = 106
Chapter 5 Love Hurts: The Abused Wife as Icon = 142
Chapter 6 Hear Us Roar: The Real First Wives' Club = 172
Chapter 7 The Unwife = 200
Chapter 8 What's a Wife Worth? = 236
Chapter 9 The Wife Axis = 267
Acknowledgments = 291
Notes = 293
Selected Bibliography = 317
Index = 323
Chapter 2 The Heart of Whiteness = 27
Chapter 3 Mystique Chic = 65
Chapter 4 Sex and the Married Woman = 106
Chapter 5 Love Hurts: The Abused Wife as Icon = 142
Chapter 6 Hear Us Roar: The Real First Wives' Club = 172
Chapter 7 The Unwife = 200
Chapter 8 What's a Wife Worth? = 236
Chapter 9 The Wife Axis = 267
Acknowledgments = 291
Notes = 293
Selected Bibliography = 317
Index = 323