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The preceding chapters have identified and analysed the ways in which a variety of disciplines and discourses have viewed, studied and evaluated the phenomenon of twinship. In discussing the findings, arguments and interpretations of each discourse, we noted a recurrent issue: the identification of a distinctively social dimension of twinship. In Part II, I want to focus upon that issue and set out the argument for the inescapably (but not, please note, the exclusively) social character of twinship.
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Stewart, E.A. (2003). The Social Construction of Twinship I: Family, Parents and Siblings. In: Exploring Twins. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914224_7
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