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GIS Lady (USA: TX) (2007/09/09):
Editorial Reviews
Review from Amazon.com
As important as friends are to women--essential, after all, to their identity as human beings--other roles in their lives get most of the ink: their lovers, spouses, children, and family. Girlfriends lovingly--and somewhat exhaustively--spotlights female comradeship. This book (which screams, "Buy me as a gift!") is simply a collection of women speaking about aspects of their female friendships to the indefatigable interviewer-slash-authors. Major topics of the book include girlhood adventures, friendships during transitions such as marriage and children, remembering friends, et cetera. In an odd little postscript, Girlfriends lists methods of female bonding such as theme parties, things with quilts and teacups, and other rituals. After all the words that precede it, such a section seems like gilding the lily.Relationships with lovers (male or female) thrum with a sexual undertone that works against the special distanced intimacy of friendship. As Girlfriends never tires of pointing out, only another woman knows what it is like to be a woman. A powerful antidote to alienation, friendships are a prime ingredient in a woman's life well-lived. From AudioFile
Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara Traeder celebrate the role female friendships play in women's lives with this endearing study of the many faces these relationships can take. Williams, Hickman and Hill bring life, warmth and vitality to the subject as they recount women's vast and varied experiences with lifelong friends, artfully lending credibility to generalizations the authors make. The performers skillfully change their inflections and voices to give the listener the impression that dozens of women stepped forward to recount their life experiences with one another. This audiobook will make listeners reflect on the many ways friendships affect our lives. H.L.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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