The Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920 Book

	Preface
1	"The Central Problem of Female Experience": Introduction	1
2	"My Girls' Mothers": The Emotionology of Mother-Daughter Relationships, 1880-1920	22
3	"Cultural Work": Mother-Daughter Relationships in Novels	41
4	"A Girl's Best Friend": Adolescent Daughters and Their Mothers	70
5	"I Am So Glad You Could Go to College": The "New Woman" and Her Mother	91
6	"We Need Each Other": Adult Daughters and Their Mothers	114
7	"The Revolt of the Daughters": Middle-Class English Mothers and Daughters	134
8	"Mother Drove Us in the Studebaker": American Mothers and Daughters after 1920	167
9	"The Anchor of My Life": Toward a History of Mother-Daughter Relationships	193
	Notes	217
	Index	289