Too close for comfort
Subtitle: questioning the intimacy of today's new mother-daughter relationship
By: Susan Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, Linda Perlman.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780425229606
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Adult children -- Family relationships; Intimacy (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Can a mother be a daughter's best friend?; title: A paradigm shift : where's the gap?; title: Psychological issues of motherhood : like mother, like daughter; title: "She's a young thin and cannot leave her mother"; title: "You've got a friend"; title: Mother superior : my mom is running my life from across state lines; title: From here to eternity; title: Staying close is hard to do; title: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall . . ."; title: Strategies : strengthening health connections; title: Close encounters of the mothering kind.