Recent studies of women, gender, and friendship in Arab states can be roughly divided into two often overlapping categories: studies that focus on the use of the discourse of kinship, broadly defined, in creating and describing women's most central friendships; and studies that draw out the relationship between women's friendships and the geographies and practicalities of women's daily social lives.…
Friendship: Arab States(1,602 words)
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Rothenberg, Celia E., “Friendship: Arab States”, in: Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph. Consulted online on 02 February 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_EWICCOM_0082a>
First published online: 2009
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