ISBN:
9780813544014
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Women on Their Own : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single
DDC:
306.81/53091821
Keywords:
Single women Social conditions
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Single women Case studies
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Single women Psychology
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Single women Conduct of life
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Single women ; Case studies
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Single women ; Conduct of life
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Single women ; Psychology
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Single women ; Social conditions
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Abstract:
Women on Their Own includes eleven original essays that embrace a broad definition of singleness-women who never married, those who cohabit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. Writers describe women who defiantly voted, single mothers who rejected dependency on public assistance, women who ran businesses, and others who found fulfillment in charitable work. Collectively, the self-reliance, creativity, and power to redefine difficult situations that these women-from a variety of cultures and countries-demonstrate make a powerful statement about the success of women on their own.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Single Women in Ireland -- Chapter 2: Virgin Mothers: Single Women Negotiate the Doctrine of Motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- Chapter 3: Social and Emotional Well-Being of Single Women in Contemporary America -- Chapter 4: Widows at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Election of 1832 -- Chapter 5: Business Widows in Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 -- Chapter 6: "His Absent Presence": The Widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage -- Chapter 7: "Great Was the Benefit of His Death": The Political Uses of Maria Weston Chapman's Widowhood -- Chapter 8: The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Widows, and the Lost Cause: "We Must Not Forget or Neglect the Widows" -- Chapter 9: Modernity's Miss-Fits: Blind Girls and Marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 -- Chapter 10: The Times That Tried Only Men's Souls: Women, Work, and Public Policy in the Great Depression -- Chapter 11: Globalization, Inequality, and the Growth of Female-Headed Households in the Caribbean -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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