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Secrets & Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships

by Karen Eng

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ISBN13: 9781580051125
ISBN10: 158005112x
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Relationships between women are often cast in binary terms, either as backstabbing competition behind the scenes or soft-filter best-friend-forever moments. Yet the simple truth about friendship is that it's never simple: not for eight-year-olds acting out adulthood through rich Barbie fantasies, not for teens trying to bridge the chasm of racial and cultural divide, not for kid-free singles watching old friendships weaken with each new partner and child that happens to someone else. Yet, however problematic women's relationships with one another can be, they can also be intense, intimate affairs, more steadfast than any romantic relationship and ultimately, more fulfilling. Secrets and Confidences is the first anthology to bypass the saccharine platitudes that make up most books on women's friendships, and acknowledge the complex reality of relationships first exemplified by Mary and Rhoda, Lucy and Ethel, and now celebrated by shows like Sex and the City—relationships that exhibit jealousy and love, loyalty and despair, and more than a few pairs of really good shoes. Contributors include Andi Zeisler, co-creator of Bitch magazine, and Ayun Halliday, as well as wry cartoons by artists like Ellen Forney, Ariel Schrag, and Phoebe Gloeckner.

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Presenting the complicated truth about women's friendships, this is the first anthology to acknowledge the complex reality of relationships that exhibit jealousy and love, loyalty and despair, and more than a few pairs of really good shoes.

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ISBN:
9781580051125
Subtitle:
The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships
Editor:
Eng, Karen
Editor:
Eng, Karen
Publisher:
Seal Press (CA)
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
Women -- Psychology.
Publication Date:
September 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
219
Dimensions:
825x550

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