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Exploring Twins

Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship

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  • © 2003

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  1. Elizabeth A. Stewart

    1. London School of Economics, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Myths about Twins

      • Elizabeth A. Stewart
      Pages 3-11

    3. The Comparative Constitution of Twinship: Anthropological and Ethnographic Perspectives

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      Pages 12-26

    4. Duality and Identity: Twins in Media

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      Pages 27-38

    5. Heredity and Environment: the Classic Twin Method

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      Pages 39-49

    6. Measuring Twinship: Psychologists on Twins

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      Pages 50-62

    7. The Divided Self: the Psychoanalytic Approach

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      Pages 63-76

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. The Social Construction of Twinship I: Family, Parents and Siblings

      • Elizabeth A. Stewart
      Pages 79-100

    3. The Social Construction of Twinship II: We Two Together

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      Pages 101-116

    4. ‘Are they identical?’: Twins’ Parents Questionnaire and General Public Questionnaire

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      Pages 117-130

    5. Thinking Twinship: Childhood and the Formation of Self and Identity

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      Pages 131-149

    6. Towards the Social Analysis of Twinship

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      Pages 150-168

    7. Concluding Remarks

      • Elizabeth A. Stewart
      Pages 169-171

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 172-221
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Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenon. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical and cross-cultural data, Dr Stewart argues that in both traditional and modern societies, twinship represents a recurrent anomaly which calls into question the assumptions around which different types of society are organized. Part One identifies and analyses the fascinating range of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the interpretation of twinship, while Part Two considers the possibilities for a distinctively social analysis of twinship.

Authors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics, UK

    Elizabeth A. Stewart

About the author

ELIZABETH STEWART lectures on the sociology of Soviet/Russian society at the London School of Economics. Her research interest in the social analysis of twinship arose from the birth of hew own twins. She is a member of the Twins and Multiple Births Association, the Multiple Birth Foundation and the International Society for Twin Studies.

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