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Websites
Short encyclopedia article about friendship.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_d...0004/2699000473/p1/article.jhtml
Scottish article about friendship and adoslescents.
http://www.scre.ac.uk/rie/nl52/nl52shucksmith.html
An article focusing on the Boston Marriage (19th-century practice of committed friendship) between Sarah Jewett and Annie Fields.
http://www.traverse.com/people/dot/jewett_fields.html
A page with many links relating to Boston Marriage, the 19th-century practice of women friends living together long-term.
http://womenshistory.about.com/msubbosmarr.htm
This site explores the history of "Romantic Friendship" (the 15th-through-19th-century practice of intense yet nonsexual same-sex love) and the possibility that television characters Xena and Gabrielle are practicing this custom.
http://www.whoosh.org/issue14/johnson.html
http://iupjournals.org/jwh/jwh12-3.html
A reprint of a 1908 treatise on historical friendship customs.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/iolaus.html
An essay discussing the debate over whether same-sex relationships in historical documents were gay relationships or nonsexual friendships, and arguing that historians often label relationships "gay" when the label is not warranted.
http://www.androphile.org/previe...brary/Debate/Article3/Debate.htm