| Description |
ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Females in the family way -- A tale of two sisters -- The kitchen wars -- The female family clique -- Hardwired to care : the kin keepers -- Men are like bricks, women are like mortar -- Competition : a help or hurt? -- How true, and for whom? -- Friend vs. female family feuds -- Mothers, sisters, and daughters -- Motherhood, revisited -- Distressing daughters -- Sweetly sinister sisters -- In laws and others -- Mothers and sisters, by law -- Daughtering, the in-law way -- Not quite family, definitely ra -- Family, more or less: extended, extra, estranged -- Carebearing and carewearing -- Really forced to be family: divorced -- Connected, caring, or coping -- The female family maintenance plan -- The transformation treatment plan -- A time to act -- Special strategies for mother or sister -- Special solutions for in-laws and exs -- Relative ra : what a therapist has to say -- Turning relational aggression into relational affection. |
| Subject |
Women -- Family relationships.
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Families.
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| ISBN |
9780470049990 cloth |
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0470049995 cloth |
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