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Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship
Berkley
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
292 pages
ISBN: 0425229602
EAN: 9780425229606
Kindle: B002IEUUW4
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Non-Fiction
A fascinating look at how mothers and their adult daughters have formed a greater friendship than generations past-and whether or not their should be boundaries. No relationship is more complicated than the one between mothers and daughters? especially today, when a cultural shift can cause a longer period of time of overlapping interests before the traditional adult markers of marriage and family. As a result, these young women are developing deeper bonds with their own mothers, a relationship that sometimes mimics friendship. But are these close bonds healthy? Is it time to cut the umbilical cord? In this eye-opening book, Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer explore the modern mother-daughter relationship in all its glorious complexity. Combining a brilliant sociological analysis with fascinating stories of real- life women, Too Close for Comfort? provides a rich, provocative look at the ways mothers and daughters get it right, how they get it wrong-and how they can happily maintain being friends as well as mothers and daughters.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - June 25, 2012
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