Table of Contents
Prologue: September 2010 1
Chapter 1 The Hour of "The List" 11
Chapter 2 The Hour of Married Sex 18
Chapter 3 The Hour of Reflecting on a Good Marriage 32
Chapter 4 The Hour of Vulvas 50
Chapter 5 The Hour of Physical Acceptance 59
Chapter 6 The Hour of Housework 67
Chapter 7 The Hour of Missing the Children 85
Chapter 8 The Hour of Working Parenting 94
Chapter 9 The Hour of Parenting Teenage Children 104
Chapter 10 The Hour of the Ancestors 128
Chapter 11 The Hour of "What About the Men?" 135
Chapter 12 The Hour We Remember-Don't Eat Your Sisters 152
Chapter 13 The Hour of Aging 162
Chapter 14 The Hour of Demons 179
Chapter 15 The Hour of Self-Help 193
Chapter 16 The Hour of the Bad Marriage 204
Chapter 17 The Hour of Counting All the Things a Woman Will Have by the Age of Forty 211
Chapter 18 The Hour of Crisis 219
Chapter 19 The Hour of Wanting to Change the World 225
Chapter 20 The Hour of Imagining a Women's Union 228
Chapter 21 Hour of Happiness 235
Acknowledgments 253