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Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Celello, Kristin (Contribuidor), Clark, Jennifer S. (Contribuidor), DeWolfe, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Fama, Katherine (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kahan, Benjamin (Contribuidor), Kania, Ursula (Contribuidor), Lagerwey, Jorie (Contribuidor, Editor ), Liggins, Emma (Contribuidor), Mastandrea, Martina (Contribuidor), Mattis, Ann (Contribuidor), Williams, Andreá N. (Contribuidor), Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Single women in literature
Single women in literature.
Single women in motion pictures.
Single women > Great Britain > Public opinion.
Single women > United States > Public opinion.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
singleness studies, interdisciplinary humanities, literature, literary studies, media studies, popular media, single women, the US, the UK, Independent women, social anxieties, family home, domestic independence, household, housework, labor, celibacy, sexual relations, sexuality, cultural studies, singly blessed, bachelor girls, all the single ladies, social history, women's studies, queer theory, Black feminism, cook books, ephemera, film histories, domestic, gender and sexuality, feminist film, media scholars, literary history, cultural force, economic force, political force, Melodrama, Jane Armstrong Tucker, Betwixt and Between, Scott Fitzgerald, The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony, Unmarried, Divorced Mothers, Short Fiction, Spinsters, Spinsters' Rest?, British Women', Short Stories, Nannies, Domesticity, Cultural Imaginary.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: situating single lives
  • PART I Singles Studies: archives and methods
  • Chapter 1 Searching for Singles: archival approaches for singleness studies and black women's collections
  • Chapter 2 Reclaiming Single Women's Work: gender, melodrama, and the processes of adaptation in the best of everything
  • Chapter 3 Recovering Single Biography: Jane Armstrong tucker, illness, and the single life
  • PART II Familiar Figures: representing and reforming the single woman
  • Chapter 4 Becoming Single: gidget "betwixt and between"
  • Chapter 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony" the unmarried flapper in literature and on screen
  • Chapter 6 Neither Betwixt nor Between: divorced mothers in the united states, 1920-1965
  • Chapter 7 Serves One: exploring representations of female singleness in American cookbooks
  • PART III Singles at Home domestic labors
  • Chapter 8 Feeling "Like a Queen" later-life single women at home in modern American short fiction
  • Chapter 9 "Spinsters' Rest"? the discomforts of home in british women's short stories of the 1920s to the 1940s
  • Chapter 10 All the Single Nannies: reforming elite domesticity and the cultural imaginary
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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