Introduction -- A personal view -- Between the devil and the deep blue sea -- The economic fallout of divorce -- The wage gap -- Children: the other victims -- The women's movement -- Image and reality -- Equal rights versus social benefits -- Women's liberation and motherhood -- The ERA: a test case -- The aberrant fifties -- Ultradomesticity: the return to hearth and home -- The rise of a cult of motherhood -- Revolt and reaction -- The unraveling of the fifties -- The male rebellion -- Contemporary women: two hostile camps -- Political possibilities -- What can trade unions do for women -- The establishment gropes for an answer -- Epilogue: voices from post-feminist generation.