This paper investigates relationships between women informed by a specific kind of solidarity behaviour, often termed “sisterhood”, and seeks to answer the question of how an inquiry of homosociality can add to such an investigation. As a term, homosociality has predominantly been used to explain the social process by which men orientate and identify with other men in order to control certain resources and positions of power, a socialisation based on the exclusion of women or of men that fail to perform the right masculinity. Women, on the other hand, are expected to engage heterosocially and side with men instead of with women in their search for power and status. However, as Jean Lipman-Blumen stated already in 1976, the women's movement has meant that women nowadays control certain resources and are beginning to develop a homosocial world of their own. The aim of this paper is therefore to challenge the equation that homosociality can and should only be viewed as a social relationship between men, to reconsider the use of the term “homosociality” and what it can offer an inquiry into the horizontal relationships between women. By grasping the affective investments of a female orientation informed both by an individual strive for power and status, and a specific kind of solidarity behaviour expected to take place between women, this paper hopes to problematise the meaning of sisterhood from a new perspective. A perspective in which feelings of desire and envy plays a prolific part.