Females in the family way -- A tale of two sisters -- The kitchen wars : relational aggression between female relatives -- The female family clique -- Hardwired to care : the kin-keepers -- Men are like bricks, women are like mortar -- Competition : a help or a hurt? -- How true, and for whom? -- 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 -- Special solutions for in-laws and exes -- Relative RA : what a therapist has to say -- Turning relational aggression into relational affection.
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