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Best Friends and Marriage : Exchange among Women by Stacey J. Oliker (1989, Hardcover)
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Author: Oliker, Stacey J. Notes: NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ALMOST NO WEAR TO COVER. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO DUST JACKET. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Condition: Used: Excellent.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520063929
ISBN-139780520063921
eBay Product ID (ePID)834203
Product Key Features
Book TitleBest Friends and Marriage : Exchange Among Women
Number of Pages231 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMarriage & Long-Term Relationships, Gender Studies, Popular Culture
Publication Year1989
GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science
AuthorStacey J. Oliker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN89-004890
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal305.4/09794
SynopsisIn this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friendship and marriage, how husbands and their wives' friends feel about each other, and how women friends talk about marriage problems. Best Friends and Marriage suggests that close friendships provide women with unique sources of intimacy, affection, identity, and community. Contradicting a widespread view of families as isolated and self-contained private worlds, Oliker suggests that "companionate marriage" did not replace the friendship and intimacy that pervaded communities of past times, but rather, that intimate friendship and companionate marriage evolved intertwined. Examining the cultures and dynamics of friendship, Oliker shows how women's position in society constrains the choices they make at home and in friendship, and shapes how best friends perceive each other's best interests. Best Friends and Marriage breaks ground in linking together the institutions of family and friendship, and in explaining intimacy in sociological and historical as well as psychological terms. In this way, a richly descriptive book also extends theory in the areas of family, community, and gender inequality., In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friendship and marriage, how husbands and their wives' friends feel about each other, and how women friends talk about marriage problems. Best Friends and Marriagesuggests that close friendships provide women with unique sources of intimacy, affection, identity, and community. Contradicting a widespread view of families as isolated and self-contained private worlds, Oliker suggests that "companionate marriage" did not replace the friendship and intimacy that pervaded communities of past times, but rather, that intimate friendship and companionate marriage evolved intertwined. Examining the cultures and dynamics of friendship, Oliker shows how women's position in society constrains the choices they make at home and in friendship, and shapes how best friends perceive each other's best interests. Best Friends and Marriagebreaks ground in linking together the institutions of family and friendship, and in explaining intimacy in sociological and historical as well as psychological terms. In this way, a richly descriptive book also extends theory in the areas of family, community, and gender inequality.
LC Classification NumberHQ1438.C2O55 1989
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