Sister Knot Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What

Name: Sister Knot Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
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ISBN: 9780393330625

ISBN-10: 0393330621

ISBN-13: 9780393330625

Edition: 2008

Authors: Terri Apter

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"The best book on sisters, very important and beautifully written."Carol Gilligan, author ofIn a Different Voice This "substantial contribution to the literature on sibling relationships" (Library Journal) explores the intricacy, friction, and love in bonds between sisters. Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotionsdevotion and disregard, affection and loathing, admiration and envyleading to anguish and confusion on the playground, in the home, and in the boardroom. Negotiating her layered feelings toward a sister shapes a woman's psychology as forcefully as do her relationships with her parents. Drawing on compelling interviews and new research, Terri…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.572

Terri Apter is a social psychologist and researcher at Cambridge University in England.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Sisters?



The Power of Complicated Feelings



Younger Sisters and Other Variations: Why the Sibling Trauma Is Universal



The Sister Knot



Shared Minds: Empathy and Identity 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


Frequently Asked Questions


Notes


Bibliography


Index