Making friendship
Ethnography and debates for a feminist anthropology of significant connections
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https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v26.10527Keywords:
feminist , friendship, anthropologyAbstract
What is friendship for feminism? What is a feminist friendship? And how does feminist anthropology approach it? The articles in the monograph presented here address these issues from their many facets. Friendship is fashionable in feminism and in society: as a practice, to do, and as a theory, to think. Different ways of approaching coexistence, of configuring the family, of resignifying kinship. Different ways of creating links between social agents, more horizontal relationships, links that inspire and enable actions of transformation. Significant bonds not only because they are - mostly - chosen, but because they are the result of a political decision, an option for a type of relationship, a way of life that reflects and at the same time builds values of equality, horizontality and collectivity. From the feminist prism, the anthropological gaze detects and describes the new scenarios of friendship, where dissident and divergent forms emerge, subversive and resilient, pleasant and joyful, destined to weave networks of support, proposals for mutual care and enjoyment in new possibilities and life projects.
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