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Sisters : shared histories, lifelong ties

Title
Sisters : shared histories, lifelong ties / Elizabeth Fishel.
Author
Fishel, Elizabeth.
Publication
Berkeley, CA : Conari Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©1994.

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Description
302 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Through interviews and questionnaires with more than 150 women, the author explores the depth and breadth of sisterhood, sibling rivalry, devotion, ambivalence, birth order, and patterns of family roles.
Subject
  • Sisters
  • Sisters > Family relationships
  • Sibling rivalry
  • Siblings
  • sisters (siblings)
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1979.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.295-300).
Contents
Ch. 1. Person to Person: My Sister and I -- Ch. 2. Family Constellation -- Ch. 3. Inside the Family Crucible and Beyond -- Ch. 4. Sister Roles: Sisters as Little Women -- Ch. 5. Sister Rivalry -- Ch. 6. Sisters as Opposites -- Ch. 7. Sisters in Love: The Shared Language of Sexuality -- Ch. 8. Sisters as Artists -- Ch. 9. Sisters in Old Age -- Ch. 10. Sisters Outside the Family -- Afterword: Sisters, Fifteen Years Later -- Appendix: Sisters Questionnaire.
ISBN
  • 0943233704
  • 9780943233703
  • 0943233682
  • 9780943233680
LCCN
94008869
OCLC
  • ocm30036889
  • 30036889
  • SCSB-2039826
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library