Open Research Europe

· ISSN (print) 2732-5121 · 1 paper in corpus

2025

Friendship, hope and communication during second-wave and postfeminism: Gillian E. Hanscombe's Between Friends and Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends.

doi:10.12688/openreseurope.20794.1 ·PMID:41048676

Hanscombe's 1982 epistolary novel Between Friends offers insight into the main ideas, conflicts and blind spots of Anglo-American second-wave (radical) feminism. Highly contested by its successors, the second wave of feminism in the Anglo-A…