Women's friendships in a post-modern world
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Abstract
It has become almost a cliché to observe that we are living in a post-modern world – a world where identity, truth, and rationality are all equally problematic. The implications of this for personal relationships in general, and for women's friendships in particular, have tended to be ignored. Nevertheless, there have been suggestions that, where discourses are relativistic, where power at many levels is diffuse, and where women are becoming an important economic and political constituency, their friendships with each other could play an important part in shaping their identities.