{"product_id":"female-friendship-literary-and-artistic-explorations-9781666907230","title":"Female Friendship: Literary and Artistic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have been traditionally less epitomized than those between men. The authors of this volume demonstrate how the emotional unions of women offer compelling insights to various historical and contemporary societies, helping us understand gender relations, traditions, family life, and community values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter years of critical neglect, the topic of female friendship in art and life is finally receiving the attention it so richly deserves. Female Friendship is a welcome addition to the growing scholarly fascination with this subject. This collection offers a varied and fresh look at what has made women appreciate, need, and support each other over the centuries. Writing across genres and continents, the scholars included in the volume add their voices to the vital and ongoing conversation about not only the remarkable value of female alliances, but also the significant challenges and transformations they must withstand to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: “Apt for Friendship”: the Epistolary Friendships of Mary Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Verini \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Politics and Pain of Women’s Cross-Racial Friendships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvy Schweitzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Fyrir innan stokk: Friendship, Kinship, and Gendered Space in Medieval Iceland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie M. Van Deusen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: “Chloe likes Olivia”: Virginia Woolf’s ‘Discourse on Method’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Eskin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen J. Waites \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Female Relationships in a Traditional Society: Mujeres de sol, mujeres de oro by Natalia Toledo Paz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7:  In the Shadows of a World Famous Twentieth Century Relationship: The 2020 Resurrection of Simone de Beauvoir’s Foundational Female Friendship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAraceli Hernández-Laroche \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: “Perfect Little Ladies”: Female Friendship and New Womanhood in Rochester, New York, 1893-1914\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnya Jabour \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Protofeminist Friendship in Margherita Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdriana Guarro Romero \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Female Friendship in the Medieval English Romance Ywain and Gawain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanne Findon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Dime con quién andas: The Female Social Networks of Postwar Europe in Julia Navarro’s Dime quién soy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Garr \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: A Little Trail through the Silver Age of Russia: Polyxena Solovyova and Natalia Manaseina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Fet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Echoes of Larger Life: Exploring Victoria Welby’s Correspondence, in particular with Mary Everest-Boole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Petrilli\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042002501975,"sku":"9781666907230","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666907230.jpg?v=1750952569","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/female-friendship-literary-and-artistic-explorations-9781666907230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}