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Understanding Male Friendships
Oxford University Press
September 2008
On Sale: August 29, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0195326423
EAN: 9780195326420
Kindle: B001DBIRJQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that
girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular
attention has focused on what friendship means to men.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men,
therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on
a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes
them work, why they are vital to the health of individuals
and communities, and how to build the kinds of friendships
that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120
conversations with women help map the differences in what
men and women seek from friendships and what, if anything,
men can learn from women's relationships.
The
guiding feature of the book is Greif's typology of male
friendships: he dispels the myth that men don't have
friends, showing that men have must, trust,
just,and rust friends. A must
friend is the best friend a man absolutely must call with
earthshaking news. A trust friend is liked and
trusted but not necessarily held as close as a must friend.
Just friends are casual acquaintances, while
rust friends have a long history together and can
drift in and out of each other's lives, essentially picking
up where they last left off. Understanding the role each of
these types of friends play across men's lives reveals
fascinating developmental patterns, such as how men cope
with stress and conflict and how they make and maintain
friendships, and how their friends keep them active and
happy.
Through the lively words of men themselves, and
detailed profiles of men from their twenties to their
nineties, readers may be surprised to find what friendships
offer men--as well as their families and communities--and
are sure to learn what makes their own relationships tick.
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