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The Sibling Society,9780679781288
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The Sibling Society


Edition: 1st
Author(s): BLY, ROBERT
ISBN10:  0679781285
ISBN13:  9780679781288
Format:  Trade Paper
Pub. Date:  6/1/1997
Publisher(s): Vintage

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SummaryTable of Contents
Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made "Iron John" a national bestseller, poet, storyteller and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society", in which adults have regressed into adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up.
Introduction vii
Part One: Jack, the Beanstalk, and the Half-Adult 3(64)
1 The Woodstock Moment
3(5)
2 Jack, the Beanstalk, and the Giant with a Large Appetite
8(36)
First Interruption: What Is the Giant?
16(15)
Second Interruption: Where Have All the Parents Gone?
31(13)
3 Swimming Among the Half-Adults
44(23)
Part Two: Inside Families 67(80)
4 The Adventures of Ganesha: A Hindu Story
67(22)
5 The Wild Girl and Her Sister: A Norwegian Story
89(13)
6 What Do Daughters Stand to Lose or Gain in a Sibling Society?
102(14)
7 What Do Sons Stand to Lose or Gain in a Sibling Society?
116(15)
8 Disdain and Contempt for Children in the Sibling Society
131(16)
Part Three: Outside the Family 147(38)
9 Benjamin Franklin's Pig: Economics and Our Heaviness of Heart
147(12)
10 Teaching Our Children That Nothing Works
159(6)
11 Looking at Women's and Men's Movements from Inside the Sibling House
165(20)
Part Four: Culture 185(44)
12 Exultation in the Midst of Flatness
185(9)
13 The Difficulty of Understanding Mythology in the Sibling Culture
194(14)
14 What Is Vertical Thought?
208(11)
15 The Snake That Wants to Eat All Its Brides: A Swedish Story
219(10)
Epilogue 229(12)
Notes 241(42)
Bibliography 283(14)
Acknowledgments 297(2)
Copyright Acknowledgments 299(4)
Index 303

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