Love in America: Gender and Self-Development Book

	List of figures and tables	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction
1	Love vs. self-development	3
I	The History Of Love
2	The feminization of love in the nineteenth century	15
3	From role to self: the emergence of androgynous love in the twentieth century	30
4	The history of love: theories and debates	49
II	Feminized Love And Its Costs
5	Feminine and masculine love	69
6	Illness and split gender roles	81
7	Marital conflict over intimacy	91
III	Androgynous Love
8	Self-development through androgynous love	105
9	Androgynous love in marriage	122
10	Friends and relatives	134
	Conclusion
11	Current trends and future possibilities	149
Appendix I	Study of close relationships in southern California	157
Appendix II	Trends in magazine articles on marriage	163
Appendix III	The rise and fall of women's movements	164
Appendix IV	Biology and gender	165
	Notes	168
	References	188
	Index	206