Inspiration
Prologue / Marlo Thomas
Free to Be Memories / Dionne Gordon Kirschner
pt. One Creating a World for Free Children
The Foundations of Free to Be... You and Me / Lori Rotskoff
In the Beginning / Carole Hart
A Thousand Fond Memories and a Few Regrets / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Mommies and Daddies / Carol Hall
Free to Be... the Music / Stephen Lawrence
Thinking about Free to Be / Alan Alda
Beyond the Fun and Song / Francine Klagsbrun
Free to Be... a Child / Gloria Steinem
How a Preschool Teacher Became Free to Be / Barbara Sprung
pt. Two Free to Be... You and Me in Historical Context
Where the Children Are Free Free to Be... You and Me, Second-Wave Feminism, and 1970s American Children's Culture / Leslie Paris
"Little Women's Libbers" and "Free to Be Kids" Children and the Struggle for Gender Equality in the United States / Lori Rotskoff
Child's Play Boys' Toys, Women's Work, and "Free Children" / Laura L. Lovett
Getting the Message Audiences Respond to Free to Be... You and Me / Lori Rotskoff
pt. Three Parents Are Still People Gender and Child Rearing across Generations
Genderfication Starts Here Dispatches from My Twins' First Year / Deborah Siegel
Free to Be Conflicted / Robin Pogrebin
Ringside Seat at the Revolution / Abigail Pogrebin
Free to Be the Dads We Want to Be / Jeremy Adam Smith
Little Bug Wants a Doll / Laura Briggs
Growing a Free to Be Family / Joe Kelly
Can William Have a Doll Now? The Legacy of Free to Be in Parenting Advice Books / Karin A. Martin
pt. Four How Free Are We to Be? Cultural Legacies and Critiques
Free to Be or Free to Buy? / Peggy Orenstein
On Square Dancing and Title IX / Miriam Peskowitz
"William's Doll" and Me / Karl Bryant
When Michael Jackson Grew Up A Mother's Reflections on Race, Pop Culture, and Self-Acceptance / Deesha Philyaw
Whose World Is This? / Courtney E. Martin
Marlo and Me / Becky Friedman
Free to Be on West 80th Street / Dorothy Pitman Hughes
A Free Perspective / Patrice Quinn
When We Grow Up / Trey McIntyre
The Price of Freedom / Tayloe Mcdonald
Lessons and Legacies You're Free to Be... a Champion / Cheryl Kilodavis
Epilogue / Laura L. Lovett
Appendix The Songs, Stories, and Skits of Free to Be... You and Me
A Content Overview / Laura L. Lovett.