Chapter 1. Introduction: Living Friendship
Chapter 2. Making Choices as Communicators: Similarity, Difference, Individuation, and Participation
Perceiving Similarities and Differences
Negotiating Contexts, Making Choices, and Creating Meanings
Constructing Similarities and Differences of Self and Others
Achieving and (Mis)Perceiving Identities Through the Dialectic of Individuation and Participation
Categories and Identity Construction
Modes of the Dialectic of Individuation and Participation
Chapter 3. Communicating Friendship: A Dialogue of Narratives and a Narrative of Dialogues
Storytelling Between Friends
Practicing Dialogue Between Friends
Narratives, Dialogues, and Friendships
Interweaving Narrative and Dialogue in Discourses of Friendship
Chapter 4. Making Meanings With Friends: Two Women's Storytelling and Dialogue
Beginning the Conversation and the Story of Karen and Chris's Friendship
Narrating Diverging Life Paths
Sharing Stories of Divorces and Traveling Together
Side Two of the Tape-Conversing About Pets and Policies
Performing a Dialogue of Narratives About Conjunctive Freedoms
Interweaving Narratives and Dialogue in the Talk of Two Friends
Chapter 5. Talking With College Students About Frontiers and Frustrations of Cross-Sex Friendships
Debating Cross-Sex Friendship
Differences Between Females and Males That Enhance Cross-Sex Friendships
Differences Between Females and Males That Undermine Cross-Sex Friendships
Mutually Defined Boundaries and Common Interests Facilitating Cross-Sex Friendships
Desire and Inevitable Sexual Tensions Overcoming Spoken Definitions of Cross-Sex Friendships
Other Relationships and Social Conditions That Facilitate Cross-Sex Friendships
Other Relationships and Social Conditions That Subvert Cross-Sex Friendships
Addressing Students' Positions on Cross-Sex Friendship
Sexism, Gendered Performances, Sexual Identities, and Cross-Sex Friendships
The Comparative Significance of Friendship and Romantic Love
Chapter 6. Pursuing Cross-Race Friendships in Personal, Sociocultural, and Historical Contexts
Constrained Cross-Race Friendship
Blacks and Whites Engaging in Friendships: Asymmetrical Challenges and Edifying Practices
Recognizing Meaningfully Whole Persons and Contingent Identities
Accomplishing Cross-Race Friendship
Making Choices, Learning Lessons, and Serving Social Becoming Through Cross-Race Friendships
Chapter 7. Embracing Ethical and Political Potentials of Friendship
Ethical Practices of Friendships
Political Practices of Friendships
Friendships and Social Change
Limitations of Political Friendships
Chapter 8. The Compass of Friendship
Introduction : living friendship
Making choices as communicators: similarity, difference, individuation, and participation
Communicating friendship : a dialogue of narratives and a narrative of dialogues
Making meanings with friends : two women's storytelling and dialogues
Talking with college students about frontiers and frustrations of cross-sex friendships
Pursuing cross-race friendships in personal, sociocultural, and historical contexts
Embracing ethical and political potentials of friendship
The compass of friendship.
