| 1: Public and Private Spheres in France by Antoine Prost | 1 |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Changing Workers and Workplaces | 9 |
| The Family and the Individual | 51 |
| The Transition from Neighborhood to Metropolis | 103 |
| 2: A History of Secrets? by Gérard Vincent | 145 |
| The Secrets of History and the Riddle of Identity | 147 |
| Family Secrets | 185 |
| The Body and the Enigma of Sex | 231 |
| 3: Cultural Diversity in France by Gérard Vincent, Perrine Simon-Nahum, Remi Leveau, Dominique Schnapper | 283 |
| Catholics: Imagination and Sin | 285 |
| Communism as a Way of Life | 315 |
| French Judaism | 347 |
| The Role of Immigrants | 379 |
| 4: Nations of Families by Kristina Orfali, Chiara Saraceno, Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, Elaine Tyler May | 415 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model | 417 |
| The Italian Family: Paradoxes of Privacy | |
| Translated by Raymond Rosenthal | 451 |
| The German Family between Private Life and Politics | |
| Translated and Edited by Mary Jo Maynes and Michele Mouton | 503 |
| Myths and Realities of the American Family | 539 |
| Notes | 595 |
| Bibliography | 611 |
| Credits | 617 |
| Index | 619 |