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dc.contributor.authorAlenius Wallin, Linn
dc.contributor.authorGoedecke, Klara
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-09T12:59:40Z
dc.date.available2024-07-09T12:59:40Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/82395
dc.descriptionLinn Alenius Wallin obtained a master’s degree in gender studies from Lund University, Sweden, in 2015. Her master thesis analyzed intimate friendships between older women in Sweden with regard to the meaning of friendship in a life-perspective, focusing on reciprocity, narrative, intersubjectivity, and experience of the self. Klara Goedecke is a PhD student in gender studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. The subject of her doctoral project is friendship between men in contemporary Sweden, and she explores negotiations regarding subjectivity, intimacy, vulnerability, touch, homoeroticism, and homophobia in men’s friendships with men.sv
dc.description.abstractFriendship is an undertheorized but increasingly important relationship in late modernity. In this article, the authors present findings from two ongoing research projects about friendship, gender and age in contemporary Sweden. They argue that discourses about gender and friendship are highly relevant for how friendship is conceptualized both among men and women, but that culturally ingrained conceptions of men’s inability and women’s capacity to be close friends ought to be problematized further, from feminist perspectives. Furthermore, they discuss friendship practices, problematizing the frequent equation of friendship and intimate dialogues, which are important but may overshadow other friendship practices, like various kinds of support. The authors show that such support is negotiated in relation to ideas of ideal friendship, permeated by reciprocity and equality, and call for further feminist research about friendship, arguing that a feminist perspective can destabilize gendered dichotomies and contribute to problematizing power relations, vulnerabilities and exclusions in friendships.sv
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.publisherLIR. journalsv
dc.subjectdialoguesv
dc.subject»disclosing intimacy«sv
dc.subjectfeminismsv
dc.subjectfriendshipsv
dc.subjectgendersv
dc.titleWith a Little Help From My Friends. Gender and Intimacy in Two Friendship Research Projectssv
dc.typeTextsv
dc.type.sveparticle, peer reviewed scientificsv


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