Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years.Isaac D. Balbusteaches social and political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Marxism and Domination(1982) and The Dialectics of LegalRepression(1973), co winner of the 1974 C. Wright Mills Prize.