The social sex : a history of female friendship / Marilyn Yalom with Theresa Donovan Brown.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper Perennial,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 382 pages ; 21 cm |
| Variant Title: |
History of female friendship. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- When the public face of friendship was male. Looking for friendship in the Bible ; Philosophers and clerics
- When women's friendships entered into history. Premodern nuns ; Gossips and soul mates ; Precious ladies ; Patriotic friendships ; Romantic friendships ; Quilt, pray, club ; College girls, city girls, and the new woman ; Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends ; From couplehood to sisterhood
- Face-to-face in the twenty-first century. Friendtimacy ; Give and take : friendship in a market economy ; Can women and men be "just friends"? ; Female friendship : what endures.