Part I
Introduction: happy wide, happy life
The history of "housewife"
The neolithic housewife
Independent housewives
Militant housewife
The making of the American housewife
Medicating the housewife
From housewife to women's libber
The dawn of supermom
Part II
The displaced housewife, or: married, pregnant, independent, fucked
All work and no pay: why the First Lady has no salary
Let's get divorced! And other paths to egalitarian marriage
It takes two to tradwife
The devalues housewife, the dismissed house husband
The declaration of independence
Conclusion: it's up to the women
but it shouldn't have to be.