Communication and womenʹs friendships : parallels and intersections in literature and life / edited by Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Womenʹs studies series (Bowling Green, Ohio)
Other Authors: Ward, Janet Doubler
Mink, JoAnna Stephens
Language:English
Published: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1993], ©1993.
Series:Womenʹs studies series (Bowling Green, Ohio)
Subjects:
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Physical Description:201 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Faithful friends" : diaries and the dynamics of womenʹs friendships / Suzanne L. Bunkers
  • Linking women across generations : the journal and letters of Lessing and Sarton / Barbara Frey Waxman
  • "Women alone stir my imagination" : intertextual eroticism in the friendships : relationships created by Virginia Woolf / Pamela J. Olano
  • "The medicine she trusted to" : woman, frienship and communication in The Voyage out and Night and day / Elizabeth Cooley
  • "Islands" of peace : female friendships in Victorian literature / Laurie Buchanan
  • "I can step out of myself a little" : feminine virtue and female friendship in Hannah Fosterʹs The coquette / John Paul Tassoni
  • The bluestocking circle : the negotiation of "reasonable" women / Susan M. Yadlon
  • Three generations of radical womenʹs man-talk / Nora Rith Roberts
  • Female friendship in the contemporary Bildungsroman / Katherine B. Payant
  • Womenʹs community and survival in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Julie Tharp
  • Inscriptions of orality and silence : representations of female friendship in francophone Africa and the Caribbean / Renʹee Larrier.