Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women including the ancient Greek hetairai, the sisterhood of mediaeval nuns and the marriage resisters of China. Thousands of women have created their own communities and destinies through frien...
Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women including the ancient Greek hetairai, the sisterhood of mediaeval nuns and the marriage resisters of China. Thousands of women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship. She also examines the contemporary women's movement and its networks and friendships -- as well as the forces operating against friendship between women. A tough and clear-sighted analysis, and a book to read again and again.
Janice G. Raymond is a longtime feminist scholar-activist on violence against women and sexual exploitation. She is the former co-director of the international Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). She is the author of many books and articles, most recently the book Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade (Potomac Press, ...
Janice G. Raymond is a longtime feminist scholar-activist on violence against women and sexual exploitation. She is the former co-director of the international Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). She is the author of many books and articles, most recently the book Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade (Potomac Press, US; Spinifex Press, Australia). Dr Raymond is professor emerita of women’s studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) where she taught for 28 years. In 2007, Dr Raymond was awarded the International Woman Award from the Zero Tolerance Trust in Scotland.
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Preface p xiii
Introduction p.1
I Origins of Female Friendship: In the Beginning Was Woman p. 31
II Varieties of Female Friendship: The Nun as Loose Woman p. 71
III More Loose Women: The Chinese Marriage Resisters p. 115
IV Obstacles to Female Friendship p. 149
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Preface p xiii
Introduction p.1
I Origins of Female Friendship: In the Beginning Was Woman p. 31
II Varieties of Female Friendship: The Nun as Loose Woman p. 71
III More Loose Women: The Chinese Marriage Resisters p. 115
IV Obstacles to Female Friendship p. 149
A Vision of Female Friendship: Two-sights Seeing p. 203
Notes p. 243
Index p. 267
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Constant noise about women not loving women is supplemented by the historical silence about women always loving women. Women-hating-women take their sustenance from the silence that surrounds women-loving-women. (查看原文)
Friendship gives women a point of crystallization for living in the world. It gives form, shape and a concrete location to women who have no state or geographical homeland and, in fact, no territorial ghetto or diaspora from which to act. Friendship provides women with a common world that becomes a reference point for location in a larger world. (查看原文)
As a lover of women and a staunch anti-Protestant, this is the PERFECT book for me. Also contains some insightful critique of modern feminism that's almost prophetic, as well as plenty of great advice...As a lover of women and a staunch anti-Protestant, this is the PERFECT book for me. Also contains some insightful critique of modern feminism that's almost prophetic, as well as plenty of great advice for women who aren't the dick-pandering type. (展开)
A book on Gyn/affection as a political space and a political act, on a way of living that questions the man-made world but does not dissociate from it, assimilate to it, or allow it to define a woman ...A book on Gyn/affection as a political space and a political act, on a way of living that questions the man-made world but does not dissociate from it, assimilate to it, or allow it to define a woman as a victim in it, on women's love and life-glad as women and among women. 2021.7mark，2022.3看完。年度最佳預定。(展开)
本文是《A Passion for Friends》的第二篇书评，主要是针对第1～3章节的总结。 第一章：Origins of Female Friendship: In the Beginning Was Woman 女性友谊的起源是女人 这章主要从哲学和社会学讲述友谊是如何被男性所论述的，以及女性友谊是如何被这样的叙事所掩盖的。这章...
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10 有用 空风 2023-06-14 17:41:18 山西
更： 2024.12.19 我的书评被删了。
4 有用 浮游苹果 2026-03-12 15:38:02 上海
更偏抽象哲学的女性友谊，甚至可以说是女人爱自己，乃至全女实践的论述，包括了女性友谊的起源和历史，包括修道院和中国的抗婚者（算是单女故事！），女性友谊的障碍和愿景。 引非常非常地切中我，一个女人最初也是最长久的朋友是她的自我。 作者重定了友谊：一种基于共识的，审慎的，需要主动选择的，了解自己的同时而被彼此吸引的女女关系。（并不是有相同的价值观就自动变成朋友） 全文阅读都非常非常舒适，（除了一开始提到... 更偏抽象哲学的女性友谊，甚至可以说是女人爱自己，乃至全女实践的论述，包括了女性友谊的起源和历史，包括修道院和中国的抗婚者（算是单女故事！），女性友谊的障碍和愿景。 引非常非常地切中我，一个女人最初也是最长久的朋友是她的自我。 作者重定了友谊：一种基于共识的，审慎的，需要主动选择的，了解自己的同时而被彼此吸引的女女关系。（并不是有相同的价值观就自动变成朋友） 全文阅读都非常非常舒适，（除了一开始提到了一些我没懂的女同部分），非常专注于女，女权是为了女女平等。非常非常喜欢作者批判异性恋的部分，并且作者也很客观地指出了女性社群内部的问题。 女人们被切断太久了，被驯化被分离被同化，让我们都把目光聚焦在自己身上，聚焦在女人身上，或许我们也会受伤，但希望我们都能坚持站在女人的这一方。 (展开)
4 有用 粉红小马驹 2026-04-30 15:50:59 山东
太喜欢了！我要像拥抱好朋友一样拥抱一下这本书！ 罗列一下我喜欢的观点： 友谊始于与自我的契合，女性的内在本真才是她最真实、最持久的朋友。如何找到自我？思考，停止思考就会失去与自我的联系。通过思考发现真实的自我，才能与她人建立真正的友谊。 女权主义是女性与自我的平等，而不是女男平等。 女性选择不婚或与女性共同生活，是主动的自然选择，不是因为没有男人要，也不是因为恐惧婚姻。 女性与自然有天然连接，自然... 太喜欢了！我要像拥抱好朋友一样拥抱一下这本书！ 罗列一下我喜欢的观点： 友谊始于与自我的契合，女性的内在本真才是她最真实、最持久的朋友。如何找到自我？思考，停止思考就会失去与自我的联系。通过思考发现真实的自我，才能与她人建立真正的友谊。 女权主义是女性与自我的平等，而不是女男平等。 女性选择不婚或与女性共同生活，是主动的自然选择，不是因为没有男人要，也不是因为恐惧婚姻。 女性与自然有天然连接，自然里有异质现实中消失的生命气息，野性的自我与大自然为伴，不受规训束缚。 书中也提到了女权社群内部的问题，比如脱离世界、情绪取代行动、关系至上、宽容的暴政等。最后提到了愿景与行动：用局内人的身份扮演局外人，在现实世界中扎根并把女权主义价值观带入，从而挑战和改造现实世界。 (展开)
3 有用 科西嘉前流放犯 2021-03-08 21:10:27
As a lover of women and a staunch anti-Protestant, this is the PERFECT book for me. Also contains some insightful critique of modern feminism that's almost prophetic, as well as plenty of great advice... As a lover of women and a staunch anti-Protestant, this is the PERFECT book for me. Also contains some insightful critique of modern feminism that's almost prophetic, as well as plenty of great advice for women who aren't the dick-pandering type. (展开)
1 有用 freddie 2022-03-20 11:26:29
A book on Gyn/affection as a political space and a political act, on a way of living that questions the man-made world but does not dissociate from it, assimilate to it, or allow it to define a woman ... A book on Gyn/affection as a political space and a political act, on a way of living that questions the man-made world but does not dissociate from it, assimilate to it, or allow it to define a woman as a victim in it, on women's love and life-glad as women and among women. 2021.7mark，2022.3看完。年度最佳預定。 (展开)