| Author's Note | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| The Unliberated 1960s | p. 1 |
| Naming the Problem: Friedan's Message to American Housewives | p. 19 |
| After the First Feminist Wave: Women from the 1920s to the 1940s | p. 35 |
| The Contradictions of Womanhood in the 1950s | p. 59 |
| "I Thought I was Crazy" | p. 81 |
| The Price of Privilege: Middle-Class Women and the Feminine Mystique | p. 101 |
| African-American Women, Working-Class Women, and the Feminine Mystique | p. 121 |
| Demystifying The Feminine Mystique | p. 139 |
| Women, Men, Marriage, and Work Today: Is the Feminine Mystique Dead? | p. 167 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 187 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 209 |