1. "The Central Problem of Female Experience": Introduction -- 2. "My Girls' Mothers": The Emotionology of Mother-Daughter Relationships, 1880-1920 -- 3. "Cultural Work": Mother-Daughter Relationships in Novels -- 4. "A Girl's Best Friend": Adolescent Daughters and Their Mothers -- 5. "I Am So Glad You Could Go to College": The "New Woman" and Her Mother -- 6. "We Need Each Other": Adult Daughters and Their Mothers -- 7. "The Revolt of the Daughters": Middle-Class English Mothers and Daughters -- 8. "Mother Drove Us in the Studebaker": American Mothers and Daughters after 1920 -- 9. "The Anchor of My Life": Toward a History of Mother-Daughter Relationships.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-287) and index.