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FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Jonas, Susan
1997 44896 From the Publisher Friends for Life is about that crucial period when mothers are trying to find a balance between encouraging their daughters' independence and imparting the benefits of their own experience. More than one hundred mothers reveal to the authors how they're coping with their daughters' preferences in partner, career, and other life-defining issues. They reflect on their relationships with their own mothers, and on their hopes for growing intimacy with their daughters. Jonas and Nissenson help mothers identify and resolve the tensions that can arise when their expectations for a daughter conflict with the reality of how she's living her life, when she seems to be making a grave mistake, when she doesn't want to hear the advice her mother wants to give. The authors also suggest to mothers that if they can share more of what's happening in their own lives they will strengthen their connection to their daughters. The authors, drawing on consultations with clinical psychologists and other professionals, present these intensely personal stories in a context that will help mothers communicate their thoughts and feelings more effectively during those years when they and their daughters are learning to see each other as adults and friends. Publishers Weekly Jonas and Nissenson, both writers and editors with grown daughters, have co-authored several other books (Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana, et al.). They consulted with a clinical psychologist on interview methodology for this engrossing study of the relationship between mothers and daughters who were aged 21-35. Because the authors excluded from consideration those with more serious problems-the desperately poor, the alcohol- or drug-addicted, the anorexic, those with a physically abusive partner-they acknowledge that their sample "is not statistically valid for scholarly purposes." Yet the 100 interviews they conducted included mothers from a variety of backgrounds, professional and working class. Besides presenting the successes and failures of mothers who have tried various ways of communicating with their daughters about relationship and career choices, Jonas and Nissenson offer informed advice on how to change mom's unproductive nagging into a supportive conversation between two adults. The authors also offer useful strategies for overcoming misplaced guilt and accepting daughters' choices that may not fulfill a mother's dreams for her offspring. Publishers Weekly Jonas and Nissenson, both writers and editors with grown daughters, have co-authored several other books (Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana, et al.). They consulted with a clinical psychologist on interview methodology for this engrossing study of the relationship between mothers and daughters who were aged 21-35. Because the authors excluded from consideration those with more serious problemsthe desperately poor, the alcohol- or drug-addicted, the anorexic, those with a physically abusive partnerthey acknowledge that their sample "is not statistically valid for scholarly purposes." Yet the 100 interviews they conducted included mothers from a variety of backgrounds, professional and working class. Besides presenting the successes and failures of mothers who have tried various ways of communicating with their daughters about relationship and career choices, Jonas and Nissenson offer informed advice on how to change mom's unproductive nagging into a supportive conversation between two adults. The authors also offer useful strategies for overcoming misplaced guilt and accepting daughters' choices that may not fulfill a mother's dreams for her offspring. Author tour. (May) Library Journal Jonas and Nissenson, who have collaborated before (e.g., Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing America, Chronicle, 1994. pap.), have put together a coherent and engrossing work. Their experiences with their own daughters propelled them to examine the relationships between other mothers and their grown daughters. Accordingly, they interviewed 113 women across the country. Although the authors admit HarperCollins Publishers 0-688-14673-2 / 9780688146733
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FRIENDS FOR LIFE: ENRICHING THE BOND BETWEEN MOTHERS AND THEIR ADULT DAUGHTERS
Jonas, Susan; Nissenson, Marilyn
1997 17759 There is an abundance of books designed to aid parents in guiding their children through adolescence, but few are aimed at those whose kids are no longer kids. Since the role of parent is never outgrown (as desirable as the idea may sound at times), a new communication approach is necessary for parents to foster a close bond with their adult children . With daughters in their 20s, Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson are familiar with the unique mother-daughter dynamic and the inherent paradox in bridging the gap between friendship and mothering. Friends for Life is their attempt to assuage the confusion by sharing the wisdom gathered by various women. To help answer their questions, the authors enlisted some experts in the field, interviewing more than 100 mothers from across the U.S. about the joys, frustrations, and complexities of simultaneously reaching out and letting go. The compilation of experience, warnings, and words of wisdom is both instructive and endearing, and the anecdotes are sure to elicit nods of recognition. Touchy subjects such as selecting a partner, choosing a career, and lifestyle choices are discussed honestly and fairly, accounting for generational differences and malleable societal norms. There is a razor-fine line between dispensing advice and nagging, between expectations and unconditional support, and the authors argue that recognizing these boundaries is essential to a healthy and loving relationship with a daughter. As with most good advice, the real value is in spreading it around. From Library Journal: Jonas and Nissenson, who have collaborated before (e.g., Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing America, Chronicle, 1994. pap.), have put together a coherent and engrossing work. Their experiences with their own daughters propelled them to examine the relationships between other mothers and their grown daughters. Accordingly, they interviewed 113 women across the country. Although the authors admit that their sample isn't statistically valid, they did try to interview mothers of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds. They then fit their material into such chapters as "When Your Daughter Lives at Home" and "Your Expectations and Her Life." The authors skillfully link bits of the interviews to make their chapters flow smoothly, without relying on morphing together two or more interviewees to create one "good" story. As a result, the women's stories ring true. William Morrow & Company 0688146732 / 9780688146733
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GOING, GOING, GONE: VANISHING AMERICANA
Jonas, Susan
1998 40630 hatever happened to vinyl records? For that matter, where did the milkman go? Has anyone sent a singing telegram recently, or made multiple copies with carbon paper, or ordered a malted at a soda fountain? In the last few decades, many familiar objects and ideas have vanished from our lives or are teetering on the brink of obsolescence. As the turn of the century approaches, Going, Going, Gone celebrates and eulogizes the quintessential aspects of mid-twentieth-century life - good and bad - that are disappearing forever: American elm trees, white gloves, enclosed phone booths, slide rules, dental cavities, and the smell of burning leaves, among many, many others. Accompanied by evocative photographs of each subject in its heyday, these lighthearted but informative essays conjure up dozens of items that Americans use, see, surround themselves with, and think about daily - or did until yesterday. From The Critics Publishers Weekly Jonas and Nissenson ( The Ubiquitous Pig ) slyly present nostalgia with a subtext--many of their examples of phenomena which are disappearing, or already have disappeared, are gender-related. Each entry has a short descriptive essay and black-and-white photographs. For example, the treatise on blue laws--which kept businesses closed on Sundays--outlines their Puritan roots and points out that with women in the work force, Sunday shopping became a necessity. Quotes from popular literature also enhance these often ironic presentations, such as the segment from a 1939 Harper's Bazaar article included in the section on girdles. On a more serious note, sexual assault is shown to have caused the demise of hitchhiking; the end of men's clubs like Yale University's Skull and Bones is chronicled by its members; and comments on the decrease in the number of nuns include anecdotal evidence such as film director Martin Scorsese's belief that ``most of the nuns who taught him were hopelessly ignorant and politically conservative'' and an unnamed artist's comment that nuns made parochial school students believe that Protestant friends would ``put a microscopic sliver of bacon in a cupcake and give it to us on Friday. A repackaged edition, with an updated introduction, of a 1994 publication. Some 70 fixtures of American life are described in terms of their history and current decline or disappearance. Items are arranged alphabetically and include technological dinosaurs (typewriters, shoe-fitting fluoroscopes), changing social phenomena (the nuclear family, the family farm, teenage dating, hitchhiking), and medical procedures (tonsillectomies, house calls), among other categories. Descriptions are accompanied by period photos, mostly advertisements or public relations shots. OVERSIZE SHIPPING! Chronicle Books LLC 0811819191 / 9780811819190
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