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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777339003321

Autore

Rosenzweig Linda W

Titolo

Another self [[electronic resource] ] : middle-class American women and their friends in the twentieth century / / Linda W. Rosenzweig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8147-6920-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

The history of emotions series ; ; 6

Disciplina

302.3/4/0820973

Soggetti

Women - Psychology

Female friendship - United States - History

Middle class women - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. "The Sister of My Heart": Female Friends before 1900; 2. "The Other's Facsimile": Young Women's Friendships,1900-1920; 3. "Boys in Particular": Young Women's Friendshipsafter 1920; 4. "The Staunchness of Female Friendship": Adult Friends,1900-1960; 5. "Partner and I": Twentieth-Century Romantic Friendships; 6. "The Most Straining of All Experiences": Friendshipswith Men after 1900; 7. Another Self? The Fabric of Friendship after 1960; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

From nineteenth-century romantic friendships to childhood best friends and idealistic versions of feminist sisterhood, female friendship has been seen as an essential, sustaining influence on women's lives. Women are thought to have a special aptitude for making and keeping friends. But notions of friendship are not constant-and neither are women's experiences of this fundamental form of connection. In Another Self , Linda W. Rosenzweig sheds light on the changing nature of white middle-class American women's relationships during the coming of age of modern America. As the middle-class domesti