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If you are interested in studying gender, friendship, networks or social relationships, here are a list of books you might like to try. For more detailed lists of journal articles and other miscellaneous texts pertaining to these subject matters, please see the reference list at the end of Karina’s thesis: The Presentation of Gendered Selves in Everyday Friendship [click here for PDF].

This is in no way an exhaustive list of the literature, it should not be seen as a substitute for a thorough literature research process.

GENDER

Psychology

Bem, S.L., 1993, The Lenses of Gender, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Canary, D.J., T.M. Emmers-Sommers & S. Faulkner, 1997, Sex and Gender Difference in Personal Relationships,
    New York: Guilford.
Chafetz, J.S., 1974, Masculine, feminine or human? An overview of the sociology of sex roles, Itasca, Ill: Peacock.
Townsend, J.M., 1999, What women want - what men want: Why the sexes see love and commitment so differently,
    New York: Oxford University Press.

Sociology

Goffman, E., 1979, Gender Advertisements, New York: Macmillan.
Grigoriou, T., 2004, 'Friendship between Gay Men and Heterosexual Women: An Interpretative
    Phenomenological Analysis', Families and Social Capital ESRC
    Research Group, Working Paper No. 5, London: London South Bank University.
Hamilton, M., 2006, What men don’t talk about, Camberwell, Vic: Penguin.
Holmes, M., 2007, What is Gender? London: SAGE.
Jackson, S. & S. Scott, 2002 (Eds), Gender: A sociological reader, New York: Routledge.
Kessler, S., 1990, ‘The Medical Construction of Gender’, Signs, 16, 3-26.
Kessler, S. & W. McKenna, 1978, Gender: An ethnomethodological approach, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kimmel, M.S., 2004, The Gendered Society (2nd Edn), New York: Oxford University Press.
McMahon, A., 1999, Taking Care of Men, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Waring, M., 1988, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth, Wellington: Allen & Unwin.
West, C. & D. Zimmerman, 1991, ‘Doing Gender’ in J. Lorber & S. Farrell (Eds), The social construction of gender,
    California: SAGE.
Wharton, A.S., 2005, the Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research, Maldon, MA: Blackwell.

Feminism/Women's Studies

Bernard, J., 1981, The Female World, New York: Free Press.
Butler, J., 2004, Undoing Gender, New York: Routledge.
Butler, J., 1993, Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of 'sex', New York: Routledge.
Butler, J., 1990, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity, New York: Routledge.
Cancian, F.M., 1987, Love in America: Gender and self-development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cancian, F.M. & S.J. Oliker, 2000, Caring and Gender, Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Caplan, P.J. & J.B. Caplan, 1994, Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender,
    New York: HarperCollins College Publishers.
Coates, J., 1996, Woman Talk: Conversations Between Women Friends, Oxford: Blackwell.
Eichenbaum, L. & S. Orbach, 1987, Between Women: Love, envy, and competition in women's friendships, New York: Penguin.
Gouldner, H. & M. Symons Strong, 1987, Speaking of Friendship: Middle-class women and their friends,
    New York: Greenwood Press.
Jackson, S. & S. Scott, 2002 (Eds), Gender: A sociological reader, New York: Routledge.
Lapsley, H., 1999, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women,
    Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
Lopata, H.Z., 1979, Women or Widows: Support Systems, New York: Elsevier.
Lorber, J., 1994, Paradoxes of Gender, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Risman, B. & P. Schwartz (Eds), 1989, Gender in Intimate Relationships: A microstructural approach,
    Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 71-86.

Masculinity/Men's Studies

Colling, T., 1992, Beyond Mateship: Understanding Australian Men, NSW: Simon & Schuster.
Connell, R.W., 1995, Masculinities, California: University of Calfornia Press.
Hamilton, M., 2006, What men don't talk about, Camberwell, Vic: Penguin.
Levenson, D., 1978, Seasons of a Man's Life, New York: Balentine’s Books.
Miller, S., 1983, Men and Friendship, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc.
Nardi, P.M., 1999, Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nardi, P.M. (Ed.), 1992, Men's Friendships, California: SAGE.
Sherrod, 1987, The Making of Masculinities, Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin.
Smith, D.W., 1985, The Friendless American Male, Ventura, CA: Regal Books.
Stoltenberg, J., 2000a/1989, Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice, London: UCL Press.
Stoltenberg, J., 2000b/1993, The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, London: UCL Press.

FRIENDSHIP

Sociology

Adams, R.G. & G. Allen (Eds), 1988, Placing Friendship in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Adams, R.G., & R. Blieszner, 1989, Older Adult Friendship: Structure and Process, California: SAGE.
Allan, G., 1989, Friendship: Developing a Sociological Perspective, New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Allan, G., 1979, A Sociology of Friendship and Kinship, London: George Allen & Unwin.
Bell, R.R., 1981a, Worlds of Friendship, California: SAGE.
Bell, R.R., 1973, Mateship in Australia: some implications for female-male relationships, Bundoora, VIC: La Trobe University.
Brehm, S., 1985, Intimate Relationships, New York: Random House.
Bukowski, W.M., A.F. Newcombe & W.W. Hartup (Eds), 1996, The Company They Keep: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fehr, B., 1996, Friendship Processes, California: SAGE.
Gouldner, H. & M. Symons Strong, 1987, Speaking of Friendship: Middle-class women and their friends,
    New York: Greenwood Press.
Lopata, H.Z. & D.R. Maines (Eds), 1990, Friendship in Context, Greenwich, Connecticut: Jai Press.
Grigoriou, T., 2004, 'Friendship between Gay Men and Heterosexual Women: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis', Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group, Working Paper No. 5, London: London South Bank University.
Matthews, S.H., 1986, Friendships Through the Life Course: Oral Biographies in Old Age, California: SAGE.
Monsour, M.B., 2002, Women and men as friends: Relationships across the life span in the 21st Century, New Jersey: Erlbaum
Nardi, P.M., 1999, Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nardi, P.M. (Ed.), 1992, Men's Friendships, California: SAGE.
Pahl, R.E., 2000, On Friendship, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Rawlins, W.K., 1992, Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics and the Life Course, New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
Spencer, L. & R. Pahl, 2006, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Weinstock, J.S. & E.D. Rothblum, 1996, Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other,
    New York: New York University Press.
Werking, K.J., 1997, We're Just Good Friends: Women and Men in Nonromantic Relationships, New York: Guilford Press.
Yager, J., 1997, Friendshifts: The power of friendship and how it shapes our lives, Connecticut: Hannicroix Creek Books.

Psychology

Apter, T. & R. Josselson, 1998, Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships,
     New York: Three Rivers Press.
Duck, S., 1983, Friends for Life: The Psychology of Close Friendships, Brighton: Harvester Press.
Foot, H., A.J. Chapman & J.R. Smith (Eds), 1980, Friendship and Social Relations in Children, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Miller, S., 1983, Men and Friendship, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc.
Orbach, S., & L. Einchenbaum, 1994, Between women: love, envy and competition in women’s friendships, London: Arrow.

Philosophy

Badhwar, N.K. (Ed), 1993, Friendship: A Philosophical Reader, New York: Cornell University Press.
Block, J.D., 1980, Friendship, New York: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Grunebaum, J.O., 2003, Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility, New York: State University of New York Press.
Little, G., 1993, Friendship: Being Ourselves With Others, Melbourne: Text Publishing Co.
Paul, M., 2004, The friendship crisis: finding, making and keeping friends when you're not a kid anymore, Emmaus, PA: Rodale
Rubin, L.B., 1985, Just Friends: the role of friendship in our lives', New York: Harper & Row.
Rubin, Z, 1980, Children's Friendships, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Women’s Friendships/Feminism

Faderman, L., 1981, Surpassing the love of men: Romantic friendship and love between women
    from the Renaissance to the present, New York: Penguin.
Hunt, M.E., 1992, Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship, New York: Crossroad.
Lienert, T., 2003, Relating Women: Lesbian Experience of Friendship, (PhD thesis), Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe.
Martin, S., 2001, Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton, Miles Franklin, London: Onlywomen Press.
O’Connor, P., 1992, Friendships between women: a critical review, New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Oliker, S.J., 1989, Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Among Women, California: University of California Press.
Orbach, S., & L. Einchenbaum, 1994, Between women: love, envy and competition in women’s friendships, London: Arrow.
Raymond, J., 1991, A Passion for Friends: Towards a Philosophy of Female Affection, London: The Women’s Press.
Weinstock, J.S. & E.D. Rothblum, 1996, Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other,
    New York: New York University Press.

Popular Culture

Hawkes, P., 1988, Best Mates: A Study by Ponch Hawkes, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble.

Other

Brain, R., 1979, Friends and Lovers, New York: Basic Books (Anthropology).
Nestor, P., 1985, Female friendships and communities: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

INTERACTION, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Bauman, Z., 2003, Liquid Love: on the frailty of human bonds, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Eisenstadt, S.N. & L. Roniger, 1984, Patrons, clients and friends: Interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society,
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fischer, C.S., 1982, To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Herbert, D.J. & R.J. Johnson (Eds), 1976, Social Areas in Cities, London: Wiley.
Goffman, E., 1971, Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, New York: Basic Books.
Goffman, E., 1969, Strategic Interaction, New York: Ballentine.
Goffman, E., 1967/1956, Interaction Ritual, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Goffman, E., 1959, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Hochschild, A.R., 1973, The Unexpected Community, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
Jerrome, D., 1992, Good Company: An Anthropological Study of Old People in Groups, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Jochum, V., 2003, Social Capital: Beyond the Theory, London: NCVO.
Kenny, S., F. Mansouri & P. Spratt, 2005, 'Arabic Communities and Well Being: Supports and Barriers to Social Connectedness', Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Melbourne: Deakin University.
Lin, N., 2000a, Social Capital: A Theory of Structure and Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres.
Lopata, H.Z., 1979, Women or Widows: Support Systems, New York: Elsevier.
Putnam, R.D, 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster.
Spencer, L. & R. Pahl, 2006, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

RELATIONSHIPS AND THE FAMILY

Sociology

Finch, 1989, Family Obligations and Social Change, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Fineman, S., 2003, Understanding Emotion at Work, California: SAGE.
Giddens, A., 1992, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies,
    Cambridge: Polity Press.
Gilding, M., 1997, Australian Families: A comparative perspective, Longman, Sydney.
Jamieson, L., 1998, Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Society, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Risman, B. & P. Schwartz (Eds), 1989, Gender in Intimate Relationships: A microstructural approach, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 71-86.
Wakeling L. & M. Bradstock, 1995, Beyond Blood: writings on the lesbian and gay family, Sydney: Black Wattle.
Weeks, J., C. Donovan & B. Heaphy, 2001, Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments,
    London: Routledge.
Weston, K., 1991, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, New York: Columbia University Press.
Whitehead, B.D., 1998, The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and the Family, New York: Vintage.

Multidisciplinary

Baber, K.M. & K.R. Allen, 1992, Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions, New York: Guilford Press.
S. Duck (Ed), 1997, Handbook of Personal Relationships: Theory, Research and Interventions, 2nd edn.,
     Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Baxter, L.A. & B.M. Montgomery, 1996, Relating: Dialogues and dialectics, New York: Guilford Press.
Canary, D.J., T.M. Emmers-Sommers & S. Faulkner, 1997, Sex and Gender Difference in Personal Relationships,
     New York: Guilford.
Kelley, H.H., et. al, 1983, Close Relationships, New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.

Psychology

Kelley et al (Eds.), 1983, Close Relationships, New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.
Dowrick, S., 1991, Intimacy and Solitude, Mission Point, NSW: Random House.
Duck, S., 1999, Relating to Others, Buckingham, Open University Press.
Duck, S., 1991, Understanding Relationships, New York: The Guilford Press.