Sister, Brother, Other, Same
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca L Spang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 268-277 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbv026 |
| OpenAlex | W2171620250 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
They are so very similar. And, yet, they are not the same. Leonore Davidoff’s Thicker than Water: Siblings and their Relations, 1780–1920 and C. Dallett Hemphill’s Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History share even more than their titles (and common publisher) might suggest. Both, of course, are histories of siblings: books that ask how many sisters and brothers people once had, how they interacted, and what they imagined the ideal relationship to be. Both begin by observing that such questions have heretofore largely been ignored. And both focus chiefly on the long nineteenth century and draw on equally varied sources: correspondence, diaries, memoirs, advice literature, children’s literature, vital records. While one considers English households and the other concentrates on North America, and while one gives a bit more space to psychoanalysis and the other looks to sociology for insights – nonetheless, a striking resemblance is the first thing to be noticed about these two books. One is tempted to call it ‘familial’, or to ask if these two books were ‘separated at birth?’ But the reviewer who did so would no doubt (and perhaps rightly) provoke the authors’ ire.
Art history · Brother · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Genealogy · Ideal (ethics) · Memoir · Psychoanalysis · Sibling · Sister · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Classics · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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