Single Lives Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film |
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| Editor:
| Fama, Katherine
Lagerwey, Jorie |
| Contribution by:
| Fama, Katherine
Lagerwey, Jorie
Williams, Andreá N.
Clark, Jennifer S.
DeWolfe, Elizabeth
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson
Mastandrea, Martina
Celello, Kristin
Kania, Ursula
Liggins, Emma
Mattis, Ann |
| Afterword by:
| Kahan, Benjamin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-9788-2851-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2022 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Inspired by the current public fascination with single women,
Single Lives traces the relationship between modern and contemporary representations of single women. The original essays collected here analyze a broad range of texts that examine the ways films, cookbooks, archives, popular literature, and other British and American texts express norms, ideals, and challenges for single women and their relationship to dominant ideals of marriage and the family. This volume...
More DescriptionInspired by the current public fascination with single women, Single Lives traces the relationship between modern and contemporary representations of single women. The original essays collected here analyze a broad range of texts that examine the ways films, cookbooks, archives, popular literature, and other British and American texts express norms, ideals, and challenges for single women and their relationship to dominant ideals of marriage and the family. This volume looks backwards to constellate existing scholarship, constituent fields, and unrecognized single voices and forward to consider new methods for interdisciplinary singles studies.