Research Catalog

Title

Sister knot : why we fight, why we're jealous, and why we'll love each other no matter what / Terri Apter.

Author

Apter, T. E.

Publication

New York, NY : Norton, c2007.

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Details

Description

308 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

An exploration of the intricacy, friction, and love in the bonds between sisters. Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions--devotion and disregard, affection and loathing, admiration and envy--leading to anguish and confusion on the playground, in the home, and in the boardroom. A woman's experience negotiating her layered feelings toward a sister shapes her psychology as forcefully as do her relationships with her parents. By exploring sisterhoods, Terri Apter reveals their key role in understanding all relationships among women. In a series of interviews, Apter considers the many aspects of the sister relationship from birth through adulthood. The need to fight to differentiate oneself from a sister, as well as the protectiveness one feels for that same person, is explained by reference to extensive psychological and biological evidence.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Sisters

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-298) and index.

Contents

Why sisters? -- The power of complicated feelings -- Younger sisters and other variations: why sibling trauma is universal -- The sister knot -- Shared minds: empathy between sisters -- "Just like" and "completely different": how sisters find and resist family roles -- Protection and resentment -- Sisters and friends: the interweaving of female bonds -- Group dynamics among sisters -- The power of sister stories -- Success and insecurity: when one sister outshines the other -- Sistering: a lifelong tie.

ISBN

• 9780393060584 (hardcover)
• 0393060586 (hardcover)

LCCN

2006024657

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library