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(0)T. E Apter
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Through detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties, Apter presents a view of midlife as a time when women gain greater control over their decisions and a strengthened sense of their potential. She divides the women she studied into four categories: the "traditional" homemaker, the "new" career woman, the late developer, and the woman prematurely catapulted into an adult role.
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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...
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A psychologist describes the five different types of difficult mothers, including angry, controlling, narcissistic, envious and emotionally neglectful and explains how adults can still suffer from these negative relationships and how they can overcome the challenges of their complex feelings.