MEN, WOMEN, AND FRIENDSHIP:: What They Say, What They Do Export

@article{citeulike:3473857, abstract = {Using data from 52 in-depth interviews with working-class and professional men and women, I examine gender differences in friendships. Men and women respond to global questions about friendship in culturally specific ways. Men focus on shared activities, and women focus on shared feelings. Responses to questions about specific friends, however, reveal more variation in same-sex friendships than the literature indicates. Men share feelings more, whereas women share feelings less; furthermore, the extent to which they do so varies by class. I argue that conceptualizing gender as an ongoing social construction explains the data better than do psychoanalytic or socialization accounts. 10.1177/089124394008002007}, author = {Walker, Karen}, citeulike-article-id = {3473857}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/246}, day = {1}, journal = {Gender \& Society}, keywords = {ethnography, friendship, gender}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {246--265}, posted-at = {2008-11-02 23:42:09}, priority = {2}, title = {MEN, WOMEN, AND FRIENDSHIP:: What They Say, What They Do}, url = {http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/246}, volume = {8}, year = {1994} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3473857 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3473857 N2 - Using data from 52 in-depth interviews with working-class and professional men and women, I examine gender differences in friendships. Men and women respond to global questions about friendship in culturally specific ways. Men focus on shared activities, and women focus on shared feelings. Responses to questions about specific friends, however, reveal more variation in same-sex friendships than the literature indicates. Men share feelings more, whereas women share feelings less; furthermore, the extent to which they do so varies by class. I argue that conceptualizing gender as an ongoing social construction explains the data better than do psychoanalytic or socialization accounts. 10.1177/089124394008002007 IS - 2 JF - Gender & Society EP - 265 TI - MEN, WOMEN, AND FRIENDSHIP:: What They Say, What They Do VL - 8 SP - 246 KW - ethnography KW - friendship KW - gender AU - Walker, Karen PY - 1994/06/01/ UR - http://gas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/246 ER -