Een heerlijke roman over vriendschap, geheimen en het inzicht dat niets is wat het lijkt De dinsdagvrouwen is een humoristische en inspirerende roman over de reis van vijf vrouwen die met een gezamenlijk doel op pad gaan, maar al snel ieder hun eigen uitdagingen moeten aangaan. …
Research into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal Friendships explores non-sexual bonding behaviours in a range of mammalian and avian species. Throug…
In this book the author draws our attention to the specific case of grief, and relates story after story—from fieldsites, farms, homes, and more—of animals mourning lost companions, mates, or friends. She tells of elephants surrounding their matriarch as she weakens and dies, an…
Nicci Morrison doet altijd alles eerder - en beter - dan haar vriendinnen. En nu ziet het ernaar uit dat ze ook als eerste dood zal gaan. Voor het zover is, grijpt ze haar laatste kans om iets te betekenen voor de vriendinnen van wie ze houdt. En dat heeft grote gevolgen. Aan de…
"Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. Informed by recent insights into the erotic potential of such relationships, but focused on romantic friendship…
Carolyn Oulton considers same-sex romantic friendships between men and women in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli, Charlotte Brontë, and Braddon, while also tracing developments in attitudes from mid-century to the fin-de-siécle revealed in conduct…
This is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have but also to see how friendship can provide a bulwark of resistance to it. Written in an engaging style, it will be understandable to political theorists, philosophers, social scientis…
As definitions of masculinity change, how friendships are organized by men is also affected. However, interactions among and between men are not only shaped by gender. This volume offers an analysis of the differences within the genders and the social forces that shape the ways …
"Men's Friendships" offers an analysis of the differences within each of the genders and the social forces that shape the ways friendship is organized. Through varying perspectives the contributors show that a variation exists within as well as between the genders. They focus on…
Oorspr. titel en uitg.: Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe. - Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1990.
Written for a student and researcher audience in sociology, cultural studies and communication, New Social Ties draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy to explore contemporary changes in informal social ties in western societies. Deborah Chambers traces the shift from …
"This book explores new social ties and forms of intimate bonding. Social and personal relationships are being profoundly transformed by changing lifestyles triggered by perceived crises in family, community, work and leisure, and by developments in global media technologies. Ar…
From Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. But scholarly investigation of the broad social relevance of friendship has been neglected. Rethinking Friendship describes the varied nature of personal relationships today, and als…
Rethinking friendship: hidden solidarities today
"Rethinking Friendship not only describes the varied nature of personal relationships today, but also locates friendship in contemporary debates about individualization and the supposed "collapse of community." Exploring friendships with partners and family as well as "friends,"…