All Girl Getaways: The importance of female friendship throughout the life-cycle
A recent article, published in Annals of Leisure Research, ‘Girlfriend getaways over the life course: change and continuity ’ by Gibson, Berdychevsky and Bell discusses the burgeoning trend of all-female holidays, the many different purposes and effects for those participating and the relationship to the life-cycle of the women. The basis of the article was a study conducted by the authors featuring 79 women of different race, social class, nationality and marital and familial status. They were interviewed about their