A different equality.(Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety)(The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream)(The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America)(Book Review)

PERFECT MADNESS: MOTHERHOOD IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY BY JUDITH WARNER Riverhead, 304 pages, $23.95

THE CAREER MYSTIQUE: CRACKS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM BY PHYLLIS MOEN AND PATRICIA ROEHLING Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 304 pages, $22.95

THE OTHER WOMEN'S MOVEMENT: WORKPLACE JUSTICE AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN MODERN AMERICA BY DOROTHY SUE COBBLE Princeton University Press, 336 pages, 529.95

ONE EVENING THIS WINTER, EIGHT weeks before our second baby was due, my husband and I had an argument. I had built some "free time" into my schedule for the final two months ...