Linked Lives: Adult Daughters and Their Mothers

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First Edition First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 238 Pages Indexed. Unclipped dust jacket price $17.95. The author analyzes the emotionally charged relatuionship between mothers and daughters. She shows the complex and variable ways that motherd-daughter relationships change as daughters mature and mothers age. She identifies two key turning points in the mother-daughter relaitonship; when the daughter becomes a mother herself and when the mother becomes frail. The mother-daughter vond varies from one family to the next. But the mother's role as primary caregiver in most families is passed on from mother to daughter and thus carried on generaiton after generaiton. Contents in Seven Chapters: Mother's Lives Daughter's Lives, The Adolescent Years, Maturation Marriage and Motherhood, Gendeer and Generation, Her Mother Veersus His, When Mothers Become Frail, and Mothers and Daughters As Women. Includes Notes, References, and Appendices regarding the research. Illustrated throughout with tables.