The author of "How to Be a Woman" presents a humorous confessional memoir that reflects on the lighter side of the patriarchy while exploring topics ranging from middle age, parenting, and marriage to feminism and existential crises.

Prologue: September 2010 -- The hour of "The list" -- The hour of married sex -- The hour of reflecting on a good marriage -- The hour of vulvas -- The hour of physical acceptance -- The hour of housework -- The hour of missing the children -- The hour of working parenting -- The hour of parenting teenage children -- The hour of the ancestors -- The hour of "What about the men?" -- The hour we remember -- don't eat your sisters -- The hour of aging -- The hour of demons -- The hour of self-help -- The hour of the bad marriage -- The hour of counting all the things a woman will have by the age of forty -- The hour of crisis -- The hour of wanting to change the world -- The hour of imagining a women's union -- The hour of happiness.