• Contents 
• Foreword
• Ehrenreich, Barbara
• Preface
• Chapter 1: 
• Men and Women
• Seven Marriages
• The Historical Context and the Nature of the Material
• Biographical Tradition
• Partings
• Brides
• De-Realization
• Hands Off!
• Visions
• Erasing the Stain
• Forms of Defense
• A Soldier's Love
• Excursus on “Homosexuality” and Where We Go From Here
• A Soldier's Love (continued)
• Woman as Aggressor
• Rifle-Women (Flintenweiber): The Castrating Woman
• The Red Nurse
• On Sythen's Ground—Where Myths Abound
• The White Nurse—Countess of Sythen Castle
• Mothers
• Sisters
• Marriage—Sisters of Comrades
• The Lady with the Light
• An Aside on Proletarian Reality, Proletarian Woman and Man of the Left: The Reality Content of the Projections
• Attacks on Women
• Sexual Murder: Killing for Pleasure
• Preliminary Findings
• Chapter 2: 
• Floods, Bodies, History
• Aggregate States of the Bodily Interior
• The Red Flood
• Street of Blood
• Boiling
• Exploding Earth/Lava
• Warding Off the Red Floods
• Streams
• All That Flows
• Very Early History: The Woman from the Water
• Woman: Territory of Desire
• Origins of the Anti-Female Armor
• Early Bourgeois History: The Expansion and Contraction of Bodies and the World
• Expansion and Contraction, A.D. 1500: The Ocean Wide and the “God Within”
• Monogamization
• Centralization and the “White Lady”: The Geometricizing of Bodies
• Solo with Accompaniment: Falcon and Medusa, or “Let There Be Ego”
• Some of the Principal Features of Reterritorialization through Women and Images of Women
• The “One-and-Only” and Doubts about the Nature of Reality: Armor on Two Fronts
• Sexualization of the Bourgeois Woman in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• The Reduction of Woman to the Vagina and Her Enlargement into the Sea of Seas
• German Classicism: The Woman-Machine and the “New Morality” as a Further Erosion of the Shores of Woman-Nature
• Into the Nineteenth Century: Crystalline Wave/Concealed Woman—from Water to Blood
• Closing Remarks
• Some Characteristics of an Artificial Relation: The Maintenance of Lack in Relations between the Sexes
• Preliminary Remarks
• The Body of Woman as Object of the “New Morality”
• One Form of Female Sacrifice
• The Incest Commandment
• The Ocean in Woman—Escape from the Double Bind—Incest Prohibition/Incest Commandment
• Floods of Love in Workers' Poetry (Supplement)
• Contamination of the Body's Peripheral Areas
• Dirt
• The Mire
• The Morass
• Slime
• Pulp
• “Behind”
• Shit
• “Through the Body…”
• Rain
• Defense against Slime, the Morass, Pulp
• Summary: Republic, Revolution, War
• The Body as Dirt
• Dam and Flood: The Ritual of Parading in Mass
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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