Women on Their Own : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single /

Women on Their Own : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single / / ed. by Virginia Yans, Rudolph Bell.

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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 ca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abelson, Elaine S.,
Bell, Rudolph M.,
Bradbury, Bettina,
Byrne, Anne,
Carr, Deborah,
Chambers, Lee V.,
Crocker, Ruth,
Gross, Jennifer L.,
Ingalls Lewis, Susan,
Kudlick, Catherine,
Safa, Helen I.,
Yans, Virginia,
Yeo, Eileen Janes,
TeilnehmendeR:
Abelson, Elaine.
Bradbury, Bettina.
Byrne, Anne.
Carr, Deborah.
Chambers, Lee.
Crocker, Ruth.
Gross, Jennifer.
Kudlick, Catherine.
Lewis, Susan Ingalls.
Safa, Helen.
Yeo, Eileen Janes.
HerausgeberIn:
Bell, Rudolph,
Yans, Virginia,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 11 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Single Women in Ireland
  • 2. Virgin Mothers: Single Women Negotiate the Doctrine of Motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
  • 3. Social and Emotional Well-Being of Single Women in Contemporary America
  • 4. Widows at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Election of 1832
  • 5. Business Widows in Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1813-1885
  • 6. "His Absent Presence": The Widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage
  • 7. "Great Was the Benefit of His Death": The Political Uses of Maria Weston Chapman's Widowhood
  • 8. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Widows, and the Lost Cause: "We Must Not Forget or Neglect the Widows"
  • 9. Modernity's Miss-Fits: Blind Girls and Marriage in France and America, 1820-1920
  • 10. The Times That Tried Only Men's Souls: Women, Work, and Public Policy in the Great Depression
  • 11. Globalization, Inequality, and the Growth of Female-Headed Households in the Caribbean
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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