Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Responsibilities of Life -- The Mere Fact of Sex -- A Practical Independence -- A Man-Run Company -- Marriage: A Defining Condition -- CHAPTER 2 Maintaining Self-Respect -- Self-Help Is the Best Help -- Have We Lost Courage? -- A Sieve with Holes -- A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep -- CHAPTER 3 Questions of Equity -- Matters of Right -- The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing -- They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship -- It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him -- CHAPTER 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justice -- Apportioning the Income Tax -- More Than Money Is Involved -- To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship -- CHAPTER 5 What Discriminates? -- How're You Going to Feel? -- The President's Commission on the Status of Women -- Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex -- Equal Pay for Equal Work -- CHAPTER 6 What's Fair? -- Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework -- Standing with Lot's Wife -- Divided Women -- At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly -- History Is Moving in This Direction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This volume pierces the skin of arguments and legislation to grasp the preconceptions that have shaped the experience of women: a "gendered imagination" that has defined what men and women alike think of as fair and desirable. The role of the breadwinner is investigated as a prime example.

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