Janice Raymond - A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female/Affection

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First published by Beacon Press, 1986

This edition published by Spinifex Press, 2001

Copyright by Janice G.Raymond, 1986
Copyright on Preface 2001

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Raymond, Janice G.
A passion for friends: toward a philosophy of female affection.
2nd ed.
Bibliography.
Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-74219-147-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 978-1-74219-449-3 (ePub Format)

ISBN 1 876756 08 X.

1. Female friendship. 2. WomenPsychology 3. Interpersonal relations. 4. Feminism. I. Title.
158.25082

Acknowledgements are always a difficult task. On the one hand, they give the author a chance to thank individuals whose support and work have been crucial to the books development; on the other hand, acknowledgements do not thank enough or adequately those who are acknowledged or describe their precise role in the gestation of the work.

Having said this, however, I would like to acknowledge many who have been helpful, in various ways, over the course of these last six years of writing. For suggestions, readings, tracking down references and other materials, and often for sharing their own work, I thank Marcia Lieberman, Ann Dellenbaugh, Ann Woodhull, Fern Johnson, Denice Yanni, Nancy Richard, Kathy Newman, Elaine Koenig, and Leila Ahmed. Thanks to Sandra Elkin, my agent. Many thanks to Joanne Wyckoff, my editor, for shaping up this book in different ways, and to Barbara Flanagan for a careful and creative copyediting. Julie Melrose dauntlessly read the proofs of this book aloud with me. Charlie Virga, an old friend, helped me put this work in an international context.

My parents have always supported and encouraged my work, even when they have disagreed with some of it. I have been fortunate in the friendship of many women, both new and old friends, whose lives confirm that the ideas in this book have a personal and political reality: Aunt Mae, Wilma Miley, Linda Scaparotti, Marlene Fine, Kathy Alexander, Gena Corea, Emily Culpepper, Kate Lehmann, Linda Barufaldi, Karin Krut, Susan Yarbrough, and Eileen Barrett. For those friends of many years ago in the Sisters of Mercy who were true companions of the soul, I am grateful.

The courage, work, and friendship of Andrea Dworkin, Robin Morgan, and Kathy Barry have been a source of inspiration and strength to me. They remind me that radical feminism lives and thrives and that female friendship is indeed personal and political. My additional thanks to Kathy Barry for her reading and suggestions on the manuscript. Nelle Mortons spirit and work continue to affect my own.

Mary Dalys vision, work, and friendship have been enspiriting and encouraging for many years. Her Self and her work have always taught me that thinking is where I keep the company of my Self; where I find my original friend, so to speak.

Renate Kleins friendship has been truly Gyn/affective. Her careful and intelligent reading of this entire work was invaluable. Her attentiveness to the daily and detailed ways of friendship have gladdened not only my life but the lives of hundreds of women worldwide who have passed through her doors.