Celebrating Women's Friendship: Past, Present and Future

edited by Ruth Symes, Heloise Brown and Ann Kaloski-Naylor.
cover designed by Hilary Kay Doran

This book is now out of print.
UK readers are able to borrow a copy from the national Library system, and you are welcome to visit the The Women's Library in London or the Centre for Women's Studies University of York to read the book in situ.
(Please contact the Centre for Women's Studies before making a special trip; address as Raw Nerve).

Details:
Ruth Symes, Heloise Brown, Ann Kaloski-Naylor (eds), Celebrating Women's Friendship (York: Raw Nerve Books, 1999). ISBN 0-9536585-1-1

Contents

Editorial Introduction

Jane Montague and Ali Andrew
Friendship, Auto/biography and the Academy

Juliet Betts and Shantu Watt
‘Joy in the Struggle Itself’: A Friendship across the Racial Divide

Katherine Side
Making and Breaking Women's Friendships in Feminist Theory

Laura Potts
Sisterhood: Part of the Pretend Family?

Ruth A Symes
‘My Constant Correspondent and Friend’: The Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazurus, 1815-1838

Heloise Brown and Krista Cowman
Exploring Suffragette Friendships

Judy Giles
Maid and Mistress: Narratives of Friendship in Accounts of Domestic Service

Vicki Bertram
Problems with (Girl)friends? Contemporary Women Poets and Tensions in Female Friendship

Ann Kaloski with Francesca de Rimini and Sue Thomas
‘She says she’s a woman’: Feminine Friendships in Virtual Reality

Jackie Scott-Mandeville
The Personal is Academic: A Different Pattern