ISBN:
9781666907247
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.34092
Keywords:
Female friendship
Abstract:
The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Female Friendship-A Foreword -- "Apt for Friendship" -- Politics and Pain of Women's Cross-Racial Friendships -- Fyrir innan stokk -- "Chloe likes Olivia" -- Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (20 -- We: Women in a Traditional (Zapotec) World -- In the Shadows of a World Famous Twentieth-Century Relationship -- "Perfect Little Ladies" -- Proto-Feminist Friendship in Margherita Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide -- Female Friendship in the Middle English Romance Ywain and Gawain -- Dime con quién andas -- A Little Trail through the Silver Age of Russia -- Echoes of Larger Life -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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