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Introduction People

are talking about friendship again. For the first time in this century

it has kindled lively interest, although it engaged imaginations in

past centuries, when the noteworthy friends were men. Women as friends

were invisible, their friendships maligned. Women friends were heralded

once, however, in the nineteenth-century sororal raptures of "romantic

friendship." Today, scholars and journalists show women's friendships

as positive once again and in many cases even contrast them to poorer

relations among men. Canny advertisers now use friendship to pluck at

heartstrings and pocketbooks. And filmmakers have seized upon

friendship as a theme of regeneration. . This is

a heady but confusing time to study women's friendships. As ideals

about relationships form, they overshadow actualities and tempt us to

treat friendship sentimentally, like other approved, private, and

sentimental relationships梞odern marriage in par-titular. And other

issues cloud the field. Recent attention to friendship grows in part

from a resurgent concern with "community." Nostalgia and yearning for

community are widespread in politics, popular culture, and social

theory. As in past revivals of concern about community, they follow a

period of economic transition, ideological and political upheaval, and

social experimentation. . The yearning for

community as a source of stability, humanity, and unified and

harmonious purpose has found expression along the entire political

spectrum. On the left梬here experiments in elective community once

flowered梔isillusioned writers now call for a return to older,

traditional sites of community; the family ap- . Buy It at Lowest Price on Amazon

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