- Epigraphs
- Prologue: Who Rules Who — Man or Woman?
Part I: Features of Female Power
- The Five Pillars of Female Power
- Womb, Kitchen and Cradle: Control Centres of Female Power
Part II: Motherpower — In the Nest of His Father’s Matriarch
- The Commandant of the Cradle
Part III: Bridepower — In the Cockpit of Courtship
- The Powers of Her Body-beautiful
- Love: Male and Female
- Courtship: The Hunting of the Love-smitten Man
- Wedding: The Bride’s Triumph Ceremony
Part IV: Wife power — In the Nest of His Own Matriarch
- The Husband Managers
- The Facade of Patriarchy
- The Double Standard
- The Silly Souls of Men
- Man’s Fear of Woman
- The Baby as Wife’s Weapon
- The Penalties of Divorce
Part V: Matriarchy and its Discontents
- The Matriarch: Sovereign of Her Nest
- Feminism: A Revolt in Paradise
- Epilogue: On Masculinism
- Notes