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Sistering

Melanie L. Mauthner

2002228 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Palgrave Macmillan · 228 pages · ENGISBN 9780333800805
  • 2005Palgrave Macmillan · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9781403941251

"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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