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Friends Forever
How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships
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2011
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Through thick and thin and everything along the way, it's through friendships that we understand our lives. In this book, authors Suzanne Degges-White and Christine Borzumato-Gainey not only explore the roles friendships play for girls and women over the course of a life, but offer a guide to finding new friends and enhancing current relationships. Using interviews with hundreds of women, spanning the ages of 4 to 94, Friends Forever provides readers with a contemporary perspective on female friendship. These personal stories, informed by the latest research on friendship, offer a rich and colorful picture that combines a life stage chronology of friendship with a guide for becoming the friend you would like to have while building strong friendships along the way. Readers will learn how to design and sustain their ideal friendscape, the dynamic and often misunderstood realm in which such bonds flourish. The authors thoughtfully examine the biological and cultural drive towards social connections among women and provide self-reflection and self-exploration opportunities that encourage readers to better understand their own roles in relationships and the roles that others in their social landscapes play.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0200-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0202-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
281
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Friendship Basics: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1: The Biology of Friendship No access
Chapter 2: Friendship in Context No access
Chapter 3: “Friendology” No access
Chapter 4: Early Childhood No access
Chapter 5: Adolescent Friendships No access
Chapter 6: Emerging Adulthood No access
Chapter 7: Coupled Up, But No Kids Yet No access
Chapter 8: Motherhood No access
Chapter 9: The Midlife Years No access
Chapter 10: The Long Road Home No access
Chapter 11: Understanding Who You Are as a Friend No access
Chapter 12: Roadblocks to Friendships No access
Chapter 13: Mapping Out Your Friendscape No access
Chapter 14: Redesigning Your Social Support Landscape No access
Chapter 15: Finding New Friends No access
Chapter 16: Building Strong Friendships from the Beginning No access
Chapter 17: Tips to Strengthen Existing Friendships No access
Chapter 18: Friendship in the Digital Age: Technology Keeps Us Connected—Sometimes! No access
Chapter 19: Full-Time Friend/Part-Time Lover No access
Chapter 20: Coming Full Circle with a Circle of Friends No access
