
The Sister Knot
Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
Edición de la obra The Sister Knot
| Autor | Terri Apter |
|---|---|
| Editorial | W. W. Norton |
| Fecha de publicación | January 16, 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 304 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780393060584 |
| ISBN-10 | 0393060586 |
| OCLC | 70803406 |
| LCCN | 2006024657 |
| Número de Cutter | A655s |
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.