Carole Bell Ford is Professor, Mentor/Coordinator at Empire State College.

Preface
Reclaiming our Past

Acknowledgments

Prologue
They Still Call Themselves "the Girls"
Profiles of Two Brownsville Women

Chapter 1
Missing
Fifty-One Percent of the Stories

Chapter 2
Brownsville
The Nurturing Neighborhood

Chapter 3
Jewish Women
Mothers

Chapter 4
Coming of Age in the Forties
Choices

Chapter 5
The Cult of Domesticity
Coming of Age in the Fifties

Chapter 6
Unfinished Business
Becoming Your Own Person

Chapter 7
Conclusions
Looking Back

Epilogue
Daughters
New Dilemmas

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Sources

Index