Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Reviewed by: Carey Gibbons, Reference Specialist
Genre: Non-Fiction, Relationships
Suggested Age: Adults, Older Teens
What is the book about?: Kayleen Schaefer examines modern women and their friendships with each other. She looks at the history of female friendships and the idea that women have been socialized to dislike each other or give up their friendships once they are married. She looks at her own life and interviews other women on everything from the myth of high school mean girls to what adult female friendships look like today. This book is a meditation on the importance of women being able to love and rely on one another and the idea that a female friendship can be just as important as the relationship a woman has with their spouse.
My Review: I loved this book and I wish I had had it when I was younger. This book doesn’t bash marriage, but it does say that a woman’s marriage (if she even chooses to have one) shouldn’t be the one and only relationship a woman has. We should love and cherish our female friends instead of setting them aside on our wedding days. Schaefer looks at female friendships in pop culture and history and also talks about her own life and the women in it. This book reinforces other, perhaps more serious, texts out there that encourage women to love and support one another not so much in the name of girl power but because why shouldn’t we?
Three Words That Describe This Book: Supportive, Positive, Empowering
Give This a Try if You Like… Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, Leslie and Ann from Parks and Recreation, Absolutely Fabulous
Rating: 5/5
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