This feminist classic explores the many manifestations of friendship between women and examines the ways women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship.
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If Raymond is correct, all of women's behavioreven friendships with other femalesis informed by their self-images as passive, secondary creatures in a male-dominated world. But despite this burden, she maintains, some women in various times and places have developed their innate capacity for intense same-sex friendships, with or without homoerotic components. Raymond looks at the lives of medieval nuns who formed spiritual and emotional ties in convents that gave them independence from a man's world. She examines the 19th century Chinese phenomenon of "marriage resisters": rural women who banded together after leaving their husbands or refusing to marry at all. Her radical feminist critique is, unfortunately, vague on how women's friendships might transform patriarchal social structures and bind women's lives together. The study is a mixture of impassioned rhetoric, jargon and tough-minded analysis. February 1
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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worldly integrity, marriage resistance movement, thoughtful passion, sworn sisterhood, chai tang, word thoughtfulness, marriage resisters, sworn sisters, dissociation from the world, vegetarian halls, convent living, lesbian sadomasochism, female friendship, spiritual friendship, female sexual slavery, original woman, unattached women, original friend, female existence, male tyranny, passionate friendship, loose women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Middle Ages, Pat Hynes, Hannah Arendt, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Oxford English Dictionary, Protestant Reformation, Women's Studies, Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontė, Kathleen Barry, Teresa of Avila, The Orchid Boat, United States, Yahweh God, Charlotte Brontė, Maxine Hong Kingston, Total Taboo, Uoo Hoo New!
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worldly integrity, marriage resistance movement, thoughtful passion, sworn sisterhood, chai tang, word thoughtfulness, marriage resisters, sworn sisters, dissociation from the world, vegetarian halls, convent living, lesbian sadomasochism, female friendship, spiritual friendship, female sexual slavery, original woman, unattached women, original friend, female existence, male tyranny, passionate friendship, loose women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Middle Ages, Pat Hynes, Hannah Arendt, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Oxford English Dictionary, Protestant Reformation, Women's Studies, Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontė, Kathleen Barry, Teresa of Avila, The Orchid Boat, United States, Yahweh God, Charlotte Brontė, Maxine Hong Kingston, Total Taboo, Uoo Hoo New!
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