Publisher:Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Females in the family way -- A tale of two sisters -- The kitchen wars -- The female family clique -- Evolved to care : the kin keepers -- Five men are like bricks, women are like mortar -- Competition : a help or hurt? -- How true, and for who? -- 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 -- One special strategies for in-laws or exs -- Two relative : what a therapist has to say.