SARAH UHL's research while affiliated with University of Maine and other places

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Article
Friendship in southern European societies has been recognized theoretically and empirically as a male-oriented institution. Women are supposedly prohibited from forming friendships, primarily because of moral restrictions on “place” and the constrictions of ties to the domestic group after marriage. Data collected in an Andalusian (southern Spain)...

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... In addition, men and women may also speak differently about their friendships because the legitimacy of them having such relationships differs. For example, Uhl (1991) demonstrated how women in the traditionalist context of rural Andalusia concealed friendship because it competed with domestic relationships and their primordial role as wife and mother. Strong traditional gender roles may also contribute to views depicting female friendship as anomalous and inappropriate (see, e.g., Brandes 1985;Kennedy 1986) and misogynist ideas depicting women as untrustworthy or jealous (e.g., Bell 1981; Gardiner 2016), calling into question women's 6 Pursuing ideals of love in a voluntary total institution ability to form friendships with each other. ...