Bøger af Linda W. Rosenzweig

Challenges the assumption that the mother-daughter relationship is necessarily defined by hostility, guilt and antagonism, concluding that mothers and daughters managed to sustain close, nurturing relationships in an era marked by a major generation gap in terms of aspirations and opportunities.

A study of the changing nature of friendship between white middle-class women during the coming-of-age of modern America. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author sets out to uncover the complex and intricate links between social and cultural developments and female friendship.