Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Female bonding and cultural controversy
  • Female bonding and literary heroines
  • Female bonding and the identities of mothers and daughters
  • Joan Didion, Diane Johnson, and the novel of female bonding in the 1970s
  • Revising the paradigm: female bonding and the transients of Housekeeping
  • Women without men: Mona Simpson, Anywhere but here; Hilma Wolitzer, Hearts; Meg Wolitzer, This is your life; Joan Chase, During the reign of the queen of Persia; Lisa Alther, Other women
  • Coda: Douglas Ungar, male novelists, wilderness women.