ISBN:
9781000962109
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.81509
Keywords:
Single people-History
Abstract:
This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, to understand singlehood in the world today.
Abstract:
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Laying the Field -- Chapter 1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies -- Chapter 2 What We Talk about When We (Don't) Talk about Singlehood -- Chapter 3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers -- Part II Singlehood, Media, and Literature -- Chapter 4 Singlehood and Valentine's Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media -- Chapter 5 "New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions"1: Edith Wharton's Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age -- Chapter 6 Unwitting W -- t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination -- Chapter 7 The Single Woman's Thousand Shapes1 of Love in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- Part III Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being -- Chapter 8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life -- Chapter 9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges -- Chapter 10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse Groups of Singles -- Afterword -- Index.
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