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Individuality Without Individualism: Review of Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Marilyn Friedman
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Abstract

This review of Janice Raymond's A Passion for Friends focuses on her strong sense of the individual and of individuality. However, and this is the central contention of my paper, her perspective is quite distinct from liberal individualism. It is also a complex variation on the feminist concern with selves in relationships.

Type
Review Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 131 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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