Author: Wendy Lawson
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Keywords: way, aspie, friendships
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-06-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 184310427X
ISBN-13: 9781843104278

People with Asperger’s Syndrome have difficulty with interpersonal relationships, yet are well known to be loyal and dependable friends. Wendy Lawson felt she had a knack for upsetting people and was surprised to be told that she ’did friendship rather well’. In her frank and thoughtful analysis of what makes and breaks friendships, she explores what it means to have friends or be a friend - even a friend to oneself; what happens when times are tough and friends are scarce; whether one can be a ’good friend’ without effort; and what other kinds of friendships ther

Author: Emily Bernard
Publisher: Amistad
Keywords: friendships, interracial, writers, friends
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0060082763
ISBN-13: 9780060082765

Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships -- white and black, Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish -- in this poignant book that includes essays from Pam Houston, Darryl Pinckney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among others. Meet a young Italian American heading off to college, the first in his family to do so -- where he rooms with and befriends a sophisticated young black man from a highly educated, socially prominent Washington, D.C., family. Meet a second-generation Korean American "from the ’hood" who is more comfortable with Latinos and

Author: Geoffrey Greif
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: friendships, male, understanding, system, buddy
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195326423
ISBN-13: 9780195326420

Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes them work, why they are vital to the health of individuals and communities, and how to build the kinds of friendships that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120 conversations with women help map the differences in what men and women seek from fri

Authors:Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein,
Publisher: New York Review Books
Keywords: friendships, unforgettable, writers, company
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1590172035
ISBN-13: 9781590172032

Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught with “idiosyncratic complexities.” One of the sweetest and funniest is Prudence Crowther’s memoir of her romance, at age thirty, with the seventy-fou

Author: John Dececco Phd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gay, amp, lesbian, studies, haworth, straight, differences, friendships, navigating, men
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1998-12-14
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0789006197
ISBN-13: 9780789006196

Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today’s gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you’ll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual men’s friendships and see what helps them negotiate the terrain of their emotional, sexual, psychological, and social differences in today’s climate of often publicly defended homophobia and heterosexism.Navigating Differences succeeds in bringing the true picture of cross-sexual men’s relat

Authors:Esther Rothblum, Jacqueline S. Weinstock,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: new, york, edge, cutting, friendships, ourselves, lesbian
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814774733
ISBN-13: 9780814774731

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. Lesbi

Author: Emma Samuel Etuk
Publisher: Emida Intl Pu
Keywords: unfriendly, world, friendships, valuable, finding, real, friends
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1999-08-13
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1881293025
ISBN-13: 9781881293026

Excellent book about friendship in the home, at schools and colleges, at work, in the church, across racial lines, meaning and benefits of friendship.