Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (Live Girls)
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Book Overview
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 pair of really good shoes.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:158005112X
ISBN13:9781580051125
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Seal Press (CA)
Length:222 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Great moments
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This anthology has great moments. The introduction by Karen Eng promised a lot: yes, why don't women and girls' friendships get more critical attention? Movies and songs are about bad romantic breakups and longing. But what about friendships that break up? How many of us can say that we've kept all our friends all our lives? And who can swear that they've not been hurt by friends who abandoned us or drifted away? The introduction promised lots. I loved Karen Eng, Joshunda Sanders, and Ayun Halliday's essays. However I found the other essays while individually entertaining did not have collective thematic coherence. Perhaps that's the point, that there are all kinds of friendships and breakups, as diverse in variety as the human beings involved.
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