TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt Smith,Tiffany
TI  - Bad Friend:  How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship 
SN  - 9781250870216
AV  - BF575.F66 W38 2025
U1  - 158.2/5082 23/eng/20250121
PY  - 0000///May 62025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Celadon Books
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Interpersonal relations
N1  - new book 2025 summer; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "A smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendship Our culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power, BFFs, or work wives. Yet cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith has always found her own life much messier. She has had dramatic friend breakups, friendships that felt like too much or not enough, friendships that drifted into silence, and friendships built on convenience rather than a meeting of minds. And there are older cultural scripts to contend with: the competitive rival, the jealous backstabber, the underminer, the fair-weather friend. We have all been bad friends. It's impossible to be a perfect one; as Watt Smith points out, women's friendships have long been magnified, scrutinized, praised, and admonished, creating a legacy of impossible ideals. In Bad Friend, Watt Smith reflects on her own experience and thoroughly mines the rich cultural history of female friendship to look for a new paradigm that might encompass the struggles along with the joy"--
ER  -