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Women's Friendships, Feminist Friendships
- Feminist Studies
- Feminist Studies, Inc.
- Volume 42, Number 2, 2016
- pp. 484-501
- 10.1353/fem.2016.0012
- Article
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Abstract:
This article analyzes contrasting descriptions and prescriptions for women’s friendships in six recent books in comparison with earlier Second Wave idealizations. “A History” of “the Social Sex,” “Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships,” and “In Solidarity: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straight” provide optimistic, progressive pictures in comparison with skepticism about “Postfeminist Sisterhood,” while a memoir chronicles a “Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend” and a self-help book tells us how to choose, lose, and keep up with friends.