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Encyclopedia > Female bonding
Female bonding is an important component in the structure of female social life.
Female bonding is an important component in the structure of female social life.

Female bonding is the formation of a close personal relationship between women.[1] Female bonding is a term that is used in ethology, social science, and in general usage to describe patterns of friendship, attachment, and cooperation in women; or in the case of ethology, associations between females of various species. The exact meaning of the term differs across contexts. Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior considered as a branch of zoology. ... The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The term attachment has multiple meanings: An email attachment Psychological attachment: see Attachment theory Attachment as a vice in Buddhism; see Buddhism This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ...

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In ethology, a species is said to have female bonding if the females regularly form coalitions in which they mutually support each other, especially if such coalitions are used to attack other groups or individuals.


Female animals such as chimpanzees and humans occasionally participate in male raiding groups that kill others, but are normally a minority in a coalition that is composed mostly of males. Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 distribution of Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ...


In the context of human relationships, female bonding is used to describe friendship between women, or the way in which women befriend each other. The expression is sometimes used synonymously with the word camaraderie. Friendships among women are stereotypically based not only on shared activities, as with men's friendship, but also on emotional sharing. This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... In psychology and common terminology, emotion is the language of a persons internal state of being, normally based in or tied to their internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. ...


See also

The term human bond, or more generally human bonding, refers to the process or formation of a close personal relationship, as between a parent and child, especially through frequent or constant association. ... Male bonding is a term that is used in ethology, social science, and in general usage to describe patterns of friendship and/or cooperation in men (or in the case of ethology: males of various species). ... In sociology, homosociality describes same-sex relationships that are not of sexual nature. ...

References

  1. ^ Female Bonding - theFreeDictionary.com

Further reading

  • Greiner, Donald, J. (1993). Women Without Men: Female Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980s. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0872498840. 

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