“ON FEMALE FRIENDSHIP”:

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
Olga Campofreda
Keyword(s):  
Female Friendship

Normalizing Female Friendship

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Martha Vicinus
Keyword(s):  
Female Friendship

“Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
West African ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Lesbian Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Headed Households

This chapter analyzes the novels of the British writer Barbara Pym, which are often read as cozy tales of English middle-class postwar life but which, I argue, are profoundly influenced by the work Pym carried out as an editor of the journal Africa at the International African Institute in London, where she worked for decades. She used ethnographic techniques to represent social change in a postwar, decolonizing, non-normative Britain of female-headed households, gay and lesbian relationships, and networks of female friendship and civic engagement. Pym’s novels of the 1950s implicitly criticize the synchronic, functionalist anthropology of kinship tables that dominated the discipline in Britain, substituting an interest in a new anthropology that could investigate social change. Specific anthropological work on West African social changes underpins Pym’s English fiction, including several journal articles that Pym was editing while she worked on her novels.

scholarly journals Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Relationship Abuse: The Role of Conditional Tolerance for Violence and Friendship Factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1206-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Mumford ◽  
Bruce G. Taylor ◽  
Peggy C. Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Adolescent Dating ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Close Friendships ◽  
Group Characteristics ◽  
Adolescent Dating Abuse

Research has pointed to the salience of friendships in predicting abuse in adolescent dating relationships. The current study investigates the perpetration of physical and sexual dating abuse as predicted by individual conditional tolerance for dating abuse within the context of friendship behaviors and group characteristics. Using two waves of the National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV; N = 511 daters aged 12-18 years), we investigated the effects of baseline individual tolerance for hitting dating partners and friendship factors on perpetration of physical and sexual adolescent dating abuse (ADA) approximately 1 year later. Conditional tolerance for hitting boyfriends was associated with ADA perpetration in the absence of friendship characteristics. Daters who reported recent discussion of a problem with friends and female daters who named all-girl friendship groups were more likely to report ADA perpetration. Close friendships are an avenue for preventing ADA perpetration. Furthermore, ADA perpetration may be reduced by targeting conditional tolerance for violence particularly against male partners within female friendship groups.

Strategic sisterhood and the girlfriend gaze: Representation of girlfriendship in the Chinese TV drama Ode to Joy

2021 ◽  
pp. 174960202110463
Author(s):  
Tingting Hu ◽  
Cathy Yue Wang
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Chinese Tv Drama

This article examines the representation of girlfriendship (Winch A (2013) Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) in the Chinese TV series Ode to Joy (2016–2017), and in particular, its representation of the interactions between urban women’s competence, experience of romance, postfeminist identity and class status in the Chinese gender context. Drawing on Winch’s concepts of ‘strategic sisterhood’ and the ‘girlfriend gaze’, we first explore how female friendship relies on networks of exchange in terms of economy, career and/or emotion, and then investigate the ways in which young women mutually monitor each other’s personal relationships to ensure their heterosexuality in society as a group.

María de Zayas’s Good Friends

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Donald Gilbert-Santamaría
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles

María de Zayas’s La traición en la amistad stands out for its representation of female friendship and for its development of a new archetype within the tradition of writing friendship: the figure of the “bad” friend. Through an innovative use of theatrical hybridity, María de Zayas contrasts the false hyperbole of Fenisa, the bad friend, with the quiet intimacy that grows up around her rivals, Laura and Marcia. Through an inversion of traditional gender roles, the figure of Fenisa emerges as a female heir to Tirso de Molina’s Don Juan who is finally condemned less for her irrepressible desire than for her failure as a friend. Her lack of solidarity with the other women in the play functions as a point of contrast to a clearly gendered representation of good female friendship that is closely associated with the rhetoric of verisimilitude and intimacy.

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