| Friends Forever: How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships Contributor(s): Degges-White, Suzanne (Author), Borzumato-Gainey, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442202017 ISBN-13: 9781442202016 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Friendship - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 158.250 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.7" W x 8.92" (0.92 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through thick and thin and everything along the way, it's through friendships that we understand our lives. In this book, authors Suzanne Degges-White, PhD and Christine Borzumato-Gainey, PhD not only explore the roles friendships play for girls and women over the course of a life, but offer a guide to finding new friends and enhancing current relationships. Using interviews with hundreds of women, spanning the ages of 4 to 94, Friends Forever provides readers with a contemporary perspective on female friendship. These personal stories, informed by the latest research on friendship, offer a rich and colorful picture that combines a life stage chronology of friendship with a guide for becoming the friend you would like to have while building strong friendships along the way. Readers will learn how to design and sustain their ideal friendscape, the dynamic and often misunderstood realm in which such bonds flourish. The authors thoughtfully examine the biological and cultural drive towards social connections among women and provide self-reflection and self-exploration opportunities that encourage readers to better understand their own roles in relationships and the roles that others in their social landscapes play. |
Contributor Bio(s): Degges-White, Suzanne: - Suzanne Degges-White, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University. . She is active in the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). She is the author of four books exploring contemporary relationships, including Friends Forever: How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships; editor of seven books addressing counseling theory and interventions; and has published over 20 refereed journal articles. Dr. Degges-White writes a blog for Psychology Today magazine and is a regular contributor on NIU's NPR radio station's Perspectives program. She has been a guest on the Ethan Bearman show, WGN's Morning and Midday television news programs, as well as print media including Canadian Living, Health Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and the South China Morning Post. |