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Sister knot : why we fight, why we're jealous, and why we'll love each other no matter what
- 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, ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BF723.S43 A67 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 308 pages; 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
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- 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
- 0393060586
- LCCN
- 2006024657
- 9780393060584
- OCLC
- ocm70803406
- 70803406
- SCSB-9524333
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library