Single lives : modern women in literature, culture, and film / edited by Katherine Fama, Jorie Lagerwey
2022
HQ800.2
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Title
Single lives : modern women in literature, culture, and film / edited by Katherine Fama, Jorie Lagerwey
ISBN
9781978828551 (pdf)
1978828551 (pdf)
9781978828537 (epub)
1978828535 (epub)
9781978828544 (mobi)
1978828543 (mobi)
9781978828513 (paperback)
1978828519
9781978828520 (hardback)
1978828527
1978828551 (pdf)
9781978828537 (epub)
1978828535 (epub)
9781978828544 (mobi)
1978828543 (mobi)
9781978828513 (paperback)
1978828519
9781978828520 (hardback)
1978828527
Published
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HQ800.2
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1303087745
Summary
"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 excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household and public labor, and between celibacy and a range of sexual relations, the single woman remains a literary and cultural focus, as she has been from the 19th to the 21st centuries. This collection offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the "singly blessed" women and "bachelor girls" of the 19th and early 20th century and "all the single ladies" of the 21st century. Essays read singleness across genre and field, offering new approaches to studying modern and contemporary single women in literature, film, and history. Authors engage scholarship from wide ranging fields of social history, women's studies, queer theory, and Black feminism. The collection reads familiar texts against the grain, rethinking archival resources, revisiting familiar figures, and exploring new sources: cookbooks, ephemera, personal documents, recovered film histories, and forms of domestic space and labor. This is a book for scholars of gender and sexuality, social history, feminist film and media scholars, and literary historians, and reflects the urgent contemporary interest in single women as a political, economic, and cultural force"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
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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Print version: Single lives. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
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