The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
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Book Overview
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 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. 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 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 the protectiveness one feels for that same person, is explained by reference to extensive psychological and biological evidence.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393060586
ISBN13:9780393060584
Release Date:January 2007
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
True, but not only of sisters
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I read "The Sister Knot" because I found Terri Apter's "What do you want from me?" so helpful in understanding two other women in my family. The attachment and competition between sisters that Apter describes fits the story between me and my brother, too, though I can see that if you felt you shouldn't compete with someone you love, then the inevitable competition between you could make things worse. but what I like about both "This Sister Knot" and Apter's book on in-law relationships is that she concenceptualize highly complex relationships and offer a way that the reader can use to think about what's going in in her - or his - life.
enlightening and reassuring
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
a wonderful and fresh account of sisters' complex feelings, warm and funny and so helpful!
complex relationship
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
A thorough analysis of the complex relationship between sisters. Makes a good case for the differences between sister/sister, brother/sister and brother/brother bonds and conflicts. I especially like how she de-pathologizes the rivalry between siblings. Anyone who wants insight into the sister bond, and especially, I believe, parents of sisters would learn a lot from this book.
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