Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other
Friends as lovers; lovers as friends; ex-lovers as friends; ex-lovers as family; friends as family; communities of friends; lesbian community. These are just a few of the phrases heard often in the daily discourse of lesbian life. What significance do they have for lesbians? Do lesbians view friends as family and what does this analogy mean? What sorts of friendships exist between lesbians? What sorts of friendships do lesbians form with non-lesbian women, or with men?\ These and other...
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Friends as lovers; lovers as friends; ex-lovers as friends; ex-lovers as family; friends as family; communities of friends; lesbian community. These are just a few of the phrases heard often in the daily discourse of lesbian life. What significance do they have for lesbians? Do lesbians view friends as family and what does this analogy mean? What sorts of friendships exist between lesbians? What sorts of friendships do lesbians form with non-lesbian women, or with men?These and other questions regarding the kinds of friendships lesbians imagine and experience have rarely been addressed. Lesbian Friendships focuses on actual accounts of friendships involving lesbians and examines a number of issues, including the transition from friends to lovers and/or lovers to friends, erotic attraction in friendship, diverse identities among lesbians, and friendships across sexuality and/or gender lines.
ForewordAcknowledgments1What We Can Be Together: Contemplating Lesbians' Friendships32Eco de una Amistad/Echo of a Friendship313The Lesbian's Experience of Friendship394Heart like a Wheel: A Friendship in Two Voices655Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead: Portrait of an Extraordinary Friendship806Namaste987On the Other Side of Silence1078Guided Journey: The Road to Myself1179Celebrating Wild Erotic Friendship: Martha and Marcia12510Going against the Fold13511Lesbian-Meets-Christian-Heterosexual-Woman-in-the-Midwest-a nd-They-Become-Lifelong-Friends15112Friendships between African-American and White Lesbians16513Well-Worn Conversations19214Negotiating Difference: The Friendship of a Lesbian-Identified Woman and a Heterosexual Man20515Uncommon Kin22516Friendships between Lesbian and Heterosexual Women24917Pat T. Bunny Meets Lynnepig25118Deeper than Biology25519Portrait of Skinny and Me25920Cindy26621A Significant Friend27322A Lesbian Love Story27723Lesbian Friendships Create Lesbian Community28824Toward a Politics of Lesbian Friendship295Contributors301
