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Speaking of friendship : middle-class women and their friends / Helen Gouldner and Mary Symons Strong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gouldner, Helen.
- Series:
- Contributions in women's studies 0147-104X ; no. 80.
- Contributions in women's studies. 0147-104X ; no. 80
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Middle class women--United States--Psychology.
- Middle class women.
- Friendship--United States.
- Friendship.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Speaking of Friendship provides an in-depth look at the friendships of middle-class women. It explores the details of their everyday experiences with making and keeping friends from the beginnings of casual acquaintanceship to the cultivation of close friends and confidantes. The importance women attach to having friends is seen in the determined search they undertake to replace friends from whom they are periodically separated by residential mobility, job switches, and other major changes in their lives. Based on interviews with seventy-five middle- and upper-middle-class women between the ages of thirty and sixty-five, this unique sociological study reveals a kaleidoscope of friendship experiences.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [167]-176.
- ISBN:
- 0313250685
- OCLC:
- 14718926
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