The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship

by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown

Book Overview

From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship.

In today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea of female friendship was completely unacknowledged, even pooh-poohed. Only men, the reasoning went, had the emotional and intellectual depth to develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062265504
• ISBN13: 9780062265500
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"