Raising baby by the book: the education of American mothers

Ch. 1. Fitting their nurture to their nature: the emergence of education for motherhood

Ch. 2. Divine motherhood versus intelligent parenthood: women's organizations and the child-study campaign

Ch. 3. "What is the matter with our children today?": Race, class, and ethnicity in the parent education movement

Ch. 4. Bringing science to the people: delivering the message of scientific motherhood

Ch. 5. Caught between common sense and science: mothers' responses to child development expertise

Ch. 6. Democracy begins at home: the practice and politics of parenting in the 1930s and 1940s

Ch. 7. Dear Doctor: the impact of the baby book on post-World War II mothers.