Sistering : power and change in women's lives / Melanie L. Mauthner.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002Description: x, 288 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 033380080X
- 306.875 21
- BF723.S43 M385 2002
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.875 MAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A262559B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sistering and Friendship -- 2. Buddies and Best Friends -- 3. Power Relationships -- 4. Motherly Sistering -- 5. Kindred Spirits -- 6. Lovers and Marriage -- 7. Divorce and Bereavement -- 8. Changing Subjectivity -- App. I. The Sisters.
"This book argues that sistering is a female experience as significant as mothering or daughtering. It illuminates how sisters can go from being best friends as teenagers to distant companions in their thirties and forties. Growing up, they take on 'big' and 'little' sister roles of caring and cared-for sibling. Some become mini-mothers; others try to reverse their dominant or dominated roles within their family structure for more equal positions of power."--BOOK JACKET.
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