Text Me When You Get Home is journalist Kayleen Schaefer s love letter to her friends. Its insightful cultural criticism makes for an especially valuable read in the #MeToo era. Schaefer traces the evolution of female friendship in this thoughtfully reported book. It's high time that we start seeing it that way. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories.
Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: There just isn't only one love story in our lives, Schaefer writes. A thoughtful, heart-soaring, deeply reported look at how women are taking a stand for their friendships and not letting go.Ī memoir of female friendship issues a call to action for BFFs everywhere. Text Me When You Get Home is a validation that has never existed before. Her personal narrative and celebration of her own relationships weaves throughout the evolution of female friendship on-screen, a serious look at how women have come to value one another and our relationships. Schaefer also includes her own history of grappling with a world that told her to rely on men before she realized that her true source of support came from a strong tribe of women.
Our love for each other is reflected in Abbi and Ilana, Issa and Molly, #squadgoals, the acclaim of Girls Trip and Big Little Lies, and Galentine s Day.
In Text Me When You Get Home, journalist Kayleen Schaefer interviews more than one hundred women about their BFFs, soulmates, girl gangs, and queens while tracing this cultural shift through the lens of pop culture. But we are rejecting those stereotypes and reclaiming the power of female friendship. NPR.org A personal and sociological examination and ultimately a celebration of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society For too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can t help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. It s high time that we start seeing it that way. If you re lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. Produktbeschreibung Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: There just isn't only one love story in our lives, Schaefer writes.
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