Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Images
Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating Women's Friendships into the Twenty-First Century
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Part I: Friendship as Identity
Chapter 2: Entangled Roots: "Old Friends" Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
Between Cruelty and Mutuality: Feminist Examinations of Friendship
The Princess and the Potato: Embodiment in Adolescent and Adult Friendship
Navigating Abortion: Adolescent Friendship and Its Falling Out
Embodied Differences: Adult Friendship and the In/Fertile Body

Ritual Return: Domestic Friendship at the Kitchen Table
Conclusion
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Chapter 3: The Gothic's Creation of Women's Friendship in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
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Chapter 4: Political Progress and Social Stall: Groupthink, Smart Talk, and Mary McCarthy's Friendship Novel
"On the Same Side and Alone:" Mary McCarthy's Life and Friendships
"Am I My Sister's Jailer?": Rivalry, Envy, and Competitive Consumerism in The Group
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Chapter 5: Girlfriend Epistemology in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Situating GFE Within Womanist Readings of The Color Purple
Self-Other-Divine: Experiencing Friendship and Knowing God
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Part II: Friendship as Support
Chapter 6: "We Will Work Together": Interclass Women's Collabships in Progressive Era Novels
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Chapter 7: Fleur's Kinship, Pauline's Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich's Tracks
Fleur's and Pauline's Survival Strategies
Gendered Forms of Colonization
Fleur's Silence and Pauline's Narrative
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Chapter 8: "What Obligation Do I Have Toward Her?": College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar
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Chapter 9: "The Tenderness of One Woman for Another": Female Friendship and Revolt in the Twentieth-Century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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Part III: Friendship as Challenge
Chapter 10: "Feeling You Near": Georgia O'Keeffe's Friendship with Mary Callery
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Chapter 11: "These Sweet Trees": Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Womanist Friendship
Reading Black Feminist Intersectional

On Womanist Friendship
Meeting Alice Walker and June Jordan as Friends
"First-Person Singular: A Letter to June Jordan"
Summertime Tanka
Conclusion
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Chapter 12: Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga's Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness
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Chapter 13: Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady's Off the Road
Life-Writing and Beat-Associated Memoirists
Lu Anne Henderson, Anne Murphy, and Diana Hansen in Off the Road
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