homosocial
Adjective
Meaning
homosocial (not comparable)
Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
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Examples
Bertilak, however, follows the homosocial code and develops a friendship with Gawain.
Gawain's embracing and kissing Bertilak in several scenes thus represents not a homosexual but a homosocial expression.
David Clark suggests it is not possible to determine whether Alcuin's homosocial desires were the result of an outward expression of erotic feelings.
Use of eroticised language Passages in Alcuin's writings have been seen to exhibit homosocial desire, possibly even homoerotic imagery.
One of the reasons that there are rarely mixed gender bands is that "bands operate as tight-knit units in which homosocial solidarity – social bonds between people of the same sex..
Homoerotic interpretations According to medieval scholar Richard Zeikowitz, the Green Knight represents a threat to homosocial friendship in his medieval world.