Table of Contents

Preface

1 The masculine framework

2 Post-war mothers

3 Post-war sons

4 The opposite sex

5 Learning to be a man

6 Masculine and feminine

7 Kindred spirits

8 The balance of power

9 Victims

10 Post-1960s mothers

11 Sons - the younger version

12 Mothers and daughters-in-law

13 Signposts to the future

Notes

Selected bibliography

About the Author

Babette Smith is an historian, writer, legal executive and mother of a son.