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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813547768
ISBN-13
9780813547763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80520891
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
Women on Their Own : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Personal Growth / General, General, Women's Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Self-Help, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"Bell and Yans are outstanding scholars who have addressed an under-examined and important aspect of women's history. This volume is both original and interesting." Carol Berkin, author ofRevolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, "This book is an interesting investigation of choice and power-agency expressed by diverse single women. Recommended." CHOICE Magazine, "Women on Their Ownextends across an impressive range of temporal and geographic distances to raise important issues in how we view the status of widows and single women in various historical periods and today." Andrew August, Abington College, Penn State University, "Women on Their Own extends across an impressive range of temporal and geographic distances to raise important issues in how we view the status of widows and single women in various historical periods and today." Andrew August, Penn State, Abington College, "Bell and Yans are outstanding scholars who have addressed an under-examined and important aspect of women's history. This volume is both original and interesting." Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, Bell and Yans are outstanding scholars who have addressed an under-examined and important aspect of women's history. This volume is both original and interesting. , "Bell and Yans are outstanding scholars who have addressed an under-examined and important aspect of women's history. This volume is both original and interesting." Carol Berkin, author ofRevolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, Women on Their Own extends across an impressive range of temporal and geographic distances to raise important issues in how we view the status of widows and single women in various historical periods and today., This book is an interesting investigation of choice and power-agency expressed by diverse single women. Recommended.
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Table Of Content
ContentsRudolph M. Bell and Virginia YansIntroduction1 Anne ByrneSingle Women in Ireland2 Eileen Janes YeoVirgin Mothers: Single Women Negotiate the Doctrine of Motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain3 Deborah CarrSocial and Emotional Well-Being of Single Women in Contemporary America4 Bettina BradburyWidows at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Election of 18325 Susan Ingalls LewisBusiness Widows in Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1813-18856 Ruth Crocker"His Absent Presence": The Widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage7 Lee V. Chambers "Great Was the Benefit of His Death": The Political Uses of Maria Weston Chapman's Widowhood8 Jennifer L. GrossThe United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Widows, and the Lost Cause: "We Must Not Forget or Neglect the Widows"9 Catherine KudlickModernity's Miss-Fits: Blind Girls and Marriage in France and America, 1820-192010 Elaine S. AbelsonThe Times That Tried Only Men's Souls: Women, Work, and Public Policy in the Great Depression11 Helen I. SafaGlobalization, Inequality, and the Growth of Female-Headed Households in the CaribbeanNotes on ContributorsIndex
Synopsis
Despite what would seem some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are rarely considered "lonely" or aberrant. They are not pitied. Rather, they are seen as having chosen to be "footloose and fancy free" to have sports cars, boats, and enjoy a series of unrestrictive relationships. Single women, however, do not enjoy such an esteemed reputation. Instead they have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable-attitudes that result in part from the long-standing belief that single women would not have chosen her life. Even the single career-woman is seldom viewed as enjoying the success she has achieved. No one believes she is truly fulfilled. Modern American culture has raised generations of women who believed that their true and most important role in society was to get married and have children. Anything short of this role was considered abnormal, unfulfilling, and suspect. This female stereotype has been exploited and perpetuated by some key films in the late 40's and early 50's. But more recently we have seen a shift in the cultural view of the spinster. The erosion of the traditional nuclear family, as well as a larger range of acceptable life choices, has caused our perceptions of unmarried women to change. The film industry has reflected this shift with updated stereotypes that depict this cultural trend. The shift in the way we perceive spinsters is the subject of current academic research which shows that a person's perception of particular societal roles influences the amount of stress or depression they experience when in that specific role. Further, although the way our culture perceives spinsters and the way the film industry portrays them may be evolving, we still are still left with a negative stereotype. Themes of choice and power have informed the lives of single women in all times and places. When considered at all in a scholarly context, single women have often been portrayed as victims, unhappily subjected to forces beyond their control. This collection of essays about "women on their own" attempts to correct that bias, by presenting a more complex view of single women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and Europe. Topics covered in this book include the complex and ambiguous roles that society assigns to widows, and the greater social and financial independence that widows have often enjoyed; widow culture after major wars; the plight of homeless, middle-class single women during the Great Depression; and comparative sociological studies of contemporary single women in the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Cuba. Composed of papers presented to the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis project on single women, this collection incorporates the work of specialists in anthropology, art history, history, and sociology. It is deeply connected with the emerging field of singleness studies (to which the RCHA has contributed an Internet-based bibliography of more than 800 items). All of the essays are new and have not been previously published.
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