TY  - BOOK
AU  - APTER, Terri
TI  - The sister knot : : why we fight, why we're jealous, and why we'll love each other no matter what 
SN  - 973-0-395-06058-4
U1  - 306.8754 APT 22nd ed.
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Sisters.     Sibling Relations.     Siblings.
N1  - Includes bibliographical and index
N2  - 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
ER  -