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Women on their own : interdisciplinary perspectives on being single /
"This collection of eleven original essays attempts to present a more complex view of single women. The writers embrace a broad definition of singleness, one that includes women who never married, those who co-habit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. They describe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans
- Single women in Ireland / Anne Byrne
- Virgin mothers: single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo
- Social and emotional well-being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr
- Widows at the Hastings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury
- Business widows in nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis
- "His absent presence": the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker
- "Great was the benefit of his death": the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause: "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross
- Modernity's miss-fits: blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick
- The times that tried only men's souls: women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson
- Globablization, inequality, and the growth of female-headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.