![]() ![]() Given this history, how were women able to co-opt the public face of friendship? In THE SOCIAL SEX:A History of Female Friendship (Harper Perennial on-sale September 22, 2015) Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown survey history, literature, philosophy, religion, and pop culture in search of the answer. Only men, the reasoning went, had the emotional and intellectual depth to develop and sustain these meaningful relationships. Dating back to the Greeks and the Romans, women were long considered “weaker” than men and constitutionally unsuited for friendship at the highest level. But only a few centuries ago, the idea of female friendship was completely unacknowledged, even pooh-poohed. Conventional wisdom tells us that women are more sociable, more empathetic, and more “friendly” than men. In today’s culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. ![]()
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