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Holding and letting go : the social practice of personal identities /

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This text explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our identities give us our sense of how to act and how to treat others, and that the ways in which we we hold each other in them is of crucial...

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Main Author: Lindemann, Hilde
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General.
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General.
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This text explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our identities give us our sense of how to act and how to treat others, and that the ways in which we we hold each other in them is of crucial moral importance.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199349470 (electronic bk.)
0199349479 (electronic bk.)