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Description

This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have been traditionally less epitomized than those between men. The authors of this volume demonstrate how the emotional unions of women offer compelling insights to various historical and contemporary societies, helping us understand gender relations, traditions, family life, and community values.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: “Apt for Friendship”: the Epistolary Friendships of Mary Ward
Alexandra Verini
Chapter 2: Politics and Pain of Women's Cross-Racial Friendships
Ivy Schweitzer
Chapter 3: Fyrir innan stokk: Friendship, Kinship, and Gendered Space in Medieval Iceland
Natalie M. Van Deusen
Chapter 4: “Chloe likes Olivia”: Virginia Woolf's 'Discourse on Method'
Michael Eskin
Chapter 5: Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Kathleen J. Waites
Chapter 6: Female Relationships in a Traditional Society: Mujeres de sol, mujeres de oro by Natalia Toledo Paz
Ida Day
Chapter 7: In the Shadows of a World Famous Twentieth Century Relationship: The 2020 Resurrection of Simone de Beauvoir's Foundational Female Friendship
Araceli Hernández-Laroche
Chapter 8: “Perfect Little Ladies”: Female Friendship and New Womanhood in Rochester, New York, 1893-1914
Anya Jabour
Chapter 9: Protofeminist Friendship in Margherita Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide
Adriana Guarro Romero

Product details

Published Jul 12 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 278
ISBN 9781666907230
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 14 b/w photos;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Slav N. Gratchev

Anthology Editor

Ida Day

Anthology Editor

Larry Sheret

Contributor

Ida Day

Contributor

Michael Eskin

Contributor

Victor Fet

Contributor

Joanne Findon

Contributor

Melissa Garr

Contributor

Anya Jabour

Contributor

Susan Petrilli

Contributor

Ivy Schweitzer

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