%0 Journal Article
%T Buddies, Comrades, Couples, and Exes: Men¡¯s Friendships with Women
%A Judith Kegan Gardiner
%J Men and Masculinities
%@ 1552-6828
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1097184X18805556
%X Although popular culture contrasts men and women as opposites, cross-gender friendships between the sexes are thriving. I agree with other scholars that men¡¯s friendships with women are increasing in number, value, and social acceptability in the United States. I argue that we should expand our contexts for understanding cross-gender friendships from dyads or paid bonds to include men and women comrades, coworkers, in-laws, exes, and members of other mixed groups
%K friendship
%K gender
%K buddies
%K exes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X18805556