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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Female friendship."”.
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Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
… elevation in scholarly and mainstream studies on friendship, female friendship is a topic that has been obstructed on account of multiple difficulties. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary attempt to surmount some of these obstacles by compiling literary, visuaL and epigraphic testimony first …
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IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN? POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES IN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP APPS
… for women are new media peddling an old promise: female empowerment through mediated possibilities of friendship, and software that connects them. Powered by algorithms that help structure their company, these applications (apps) turn out remarkable not for bridging women, but for shaping their …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
… home man needs” (285).|LOVE IN THE CONVENT: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND THE FAILURE OF MARRIAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE NUN interprets the novella by examining Aphra Behn’s treatment of women’s options regarding marriage, the benefits of an alternative conventual life, the risks in heterosexual love, …
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Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays
… Shakespeare's representations of bonds between female friends, mistresses and servants, and mothers and daughters in the context of early modern discourses on female friendship, focusing specifically on the ways female characters mediate for one another. Although the majority of Renaissance …
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Female friendships in the workplace: A qualitative study of women's relationships in the Kuwaiti education sector
… findings of 20 interviews undertaken with female teachers in order to explore the topic of workplace friendships between women in an all-female organisational setting. The interview data sheds light on these friendships within the all-female workplace context, examining how the workplace …
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"To liberate ourselves and each other" : reading the female community in the fiction of Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
In this project, I analyze the portrayal of female community within the fiction of three American women writers: Sylvia Plath, Mary McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. I am specifically concerned with comparing the depiction of female community within white and Black female writers' works. The …
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Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate
… importance of resources derived from informal female social networks for the survival of individual women.The thesis relies largely on data gathered during two and a half years of participant observation within the estate, combining interviews with a total of 96 single mothers and cases studies …