附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-130) and index.
Introduction: Female bonding and cultural controversy -- Female bonding and literary heroines -- Female bonding and the identities of mothers and daughters -- Joan Didion, Diane Johnson, and the novel of female bonding in the 1970s -- Revising the paradigm: female bonding and the transients of Housekeeping -- Women without men: Mona Simpson, Anywhere but here; Hilma Wolitzer, Hearts; Meg Wolitzer, This is your life; Joan Chase, During the reign of the queen of Persia; Lisa Alther, Other women -- Coda: Douglas Ungar, male novelists, wilderness women.
