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Author : Lorie Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Self-identified Woman (spinster, Old Maid, Single, Never Married) written by Lorie Barker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Simon
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877226710
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Never Married Women written by Barbara Simon and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Simon] deals seriously and perceptively with lives almost never granted such respect--those of the 'spinster,' the 'old maid.' ...There is also a particular ironic energy." --The Nation "Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, ‘Oh, you would like my Aunt _____ ! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common.' "--from an interview, August 1984. In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic refusal to be "yoked by wifing," as one woman expressed it. A spirit of independence pervades these compelling self-portraits as the women describe the day-to-day activities, options and adaptations, as well as the stigma that shaped lives that defied the spinster stereotype. Simon explains: "I have written this book about them because I want others to learn, as I have, about the diversity of their experiences and perspectives. It is only by immersion in this variety that one can begin to comprehend the discrepancy between popular notions of ‘old maids' and the actualities of single women's daily lives.... Though women who have never married have often been judged, they have seldom been studied." With care and empathy, the author presents women who lived at a time when not being married and being financially independent were considered deviant. From a variety of ethnic, religious, educational, and social groups, and ranging in age from sixty-six to one hundred and one years old, these women discuss the work they have loved or hated and their relations with family and friends. The autobiographical reflections provide insights about the symbolic and material worlds of never-married women and comparisons to the lives of single career women today. In the 1980s, a significantly higher proportion of American women are foregoing marriage than at any point in the past one hundred years. Simon confronts head-on the image of the passive and unhappy old maid, presenting instead a group of independent and self-actualizing women who, in many cases, chose to remain single. "With women choosing to be single in greater numbers than at any other time in this century, a study of single women is most timely.... Although considered deviant by the greater society, these women all manifest a feisty, independent spirit that defies conventional stereotypes of ‘old maids' or ‘spinsters.‘ ... Maybe you should give your mother a copy of this book the next time she asks." --New Directions for Women "An important work on a segment of the female population that has remained single for at least six decades in a society that expected its women to marry and bear children [Simon] evaluates the actualities of these women's lives versus popular images and stereotypes..." --Choice "By offering concrete examples of how the nuclear family is oppressive to those who stand outside of it, Never Married Women breathes life into critiques of the family articulated by...other feminist theorists. And by focusing on the lives of elderly single women, Simon aptly illustrates the injustice of our over reliance on the family--instead of the state--to care for the dependent elderly." --Contemporary Sociology "This book is a paean to women's resilience, adaptability, and courage to live with the consequences of their own decisions." --Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
Author : Crystal Ann Barile
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Never-married, Caucasian, American Woman in Mid-life as a Departure from the Stereotypes of the Old Maid Spinster written by Crystal Ann Barile and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This phenomenological study explores the unconscious historical, cultural, psychological, and familial factors affecting the older, never-married woman of today-the "Baby-Boom" generation of always-single women who have lived on the edge of societal change and transformation. The stereotypes of the single woman as spinster and old maid are outdated and archaic, yet they continue to permeate the collective unconscious of our culture. Single women have become a part of the shift in cultural thought that has freed women to pursue new paths and options in their lives. These new life choices come with a price of past social indoctrination that is not easily forgotten and which still lingers in the psychological makeup of these women. Literature, media, and social commentary have all influenced the single woman in developing an image of who she is in relationship to others in our society. Marriage no longer needs to be the ultimate goal for all American adult women, beginning the erosion of this particular patriarchal doctrine so ingrained in our Anglo-Saxon roots. The in-depth interviews of the 6 participants of this study show a high level of self- confidence and self-esteem on the part of these women, who are able to live a lifestyle that flies in the face of conventional social beliefs. The Jungian concept of individuation may be applicable to women who have had to face cultural stigmas in remaining single and who have been able to forge active, fulfilling, and vital lives. Prior to the 1960s, a stigma was attached to women who chose not to marry. The feminist movement encouraged a changing image of the single woman. The 1990s have introduced studies showing a majority of both men and women marrying in their mid - to late 20s. People are experiencing far greater happiness as singles than in any other time in recent history. The exploration of adult singlehood as a separate life stage is becoming a reality. There has been a gap in both clinical and research studies in understanding this growing life- stage population. This body of research is important in helping, psychotherapists to comprehend their role in recognizing singleness as a viable life option and aiding their clients in believing that not being married is socially acceptable.
Author : Rebecca Traister
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716579
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book All the Single Ladies written by Rebecca Traister and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--
Author : Katherine Fama
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978828519
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Single Lives written by Katherine Fama and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 looks backwards to constellate existing scholarship, constituent fields, and unrecognized single voices and forward to consider new methods for interdisciplinary singles studies.
Author : Myrtle Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Spinster Book written by Myrtle Reed and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bella Depaulo Phd
Publisher : Doubledoor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780615486789
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Singlism written by Bella Depaulo Phd and published by Doubledoor Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social psychologist examines the widespread cultural bias against unmarried adults, debunks commonly held myths about singlehood, and challenges the financial, social, economic, and other discrimination that single adults confront.
Author : Kate Bolick
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385347146
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Spinster written by Kate Bolick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
Author : Naomi Braun Rosenthal
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489434
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities written by Naomi Braun Rosenthal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's life and demise by using stories from the Ladies' Home Journal (from 1890, 1913, and 1933), along with Hollywood films from the 1940s and 1950s, such as It's a Wonderful Life; Now, Voyager; and Summertime, among others. Originally invoked as a symbol of female independence a hundred years ago, when marriage and career were considered to be incompatible choices for women, spinsterhood was advocated as an alternate path by some and viewed as a threat to family life by others. Today, there are few traces of the spinster's existence—the options open to women have dramatically changed—but we continue to grapple with concerns about women's desires and "the future of the family."
Author : Joanna Scutts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 163149273X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Extra Woman written by Joanna Scutts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. You’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated, she lives comfortably alone, she pursues her passions unabashedly, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for a brief, exclamatory period in the late 1930s, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. Marjorie Hillis, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcées, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. In a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own, Joanna Scutts, a leading cultural critic, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash, Decorating Is Fun! transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book, The Joy of Cooking, reassured the nervous home chef that she, too, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience, Hillis proved that guts, grace, and perseverance would always be in vogue. With this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion, mixology, decorating, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
Author : Maeve Brennan
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026546
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Long-Winded Lady written by Maeve Brennan and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Long–Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long–Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.
Author : Laura L. Doan
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Old Maids to Radical Spinsters written by Laura L. Doan and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the authors whose works are studied in 13 contributions are Ivy Compton-Burnett, E.M. Forster, Barbara Pym, May Sarton, Gail Godwin, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf. The theme is the cultural stereotyping of unmarried women and the evolution of that image. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jana Marguerite Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190462639
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Singleness and the Church written by Jana Marguerite Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggest, but this does not seem to be the case. In this exciting new book, Jana Marguerite Bennett examines a variety of usually forgotten models of singleness: the never-married, the casually uncommitted, the committed but unmarried, the same-sex attracted, the widowed, the divorced, and the single parent. Each chapter in Singleness and the Church takes one of these models and considers the cultural commentary, Christian debate, and a holy guide-figures like Paul, Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Dorothy Day -in order to offer a new perspective on singleness, the church, and what it means to be a single Christian disciple. In Singleness and the Church, Bennett provides a fresh new theology of single life, a starting point for restoring singleness, in all its amazing varieties, to its rightful place in Christian tradition.
Author : Talia Hibbert
Publisher : Nixon House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Roommate Risk written by Talia Hibbert and published by Nixon House. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two best friends. Seven years of pining. One explosive summer… Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn’t have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves her temporarily homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules. Don’t touch Jasmine if you can help it. Don’t look at her arse in that skirt. And don’t ever—ever—tell her you love her. He should’ve added another rule: Do not, under any circumstances, let Jas move into your house. Now Rahul is living with the friend he can’t have, and it’s decimating his control. He knows their shared dinners aren’t dates, their late-night kisses are a mistake, and the tenderness in Jasmine’s gaze is only temporary. One wrong word could send his skittish best friend running. So why is he tempted to risk it all?
Author : Amy M. Froide
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199270600
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Never Married written by Amy M. Froide and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England investigates a paradox in the history of early modern England: although one third of adult women were never married, these women have remained largely absent from historical scholarship. Amy Froide reintroduces us to the category of difference called marital status and to the significant ways it shaped the life experiences of early modern women. By de-centring marriage as the norm in social, economic, and cultural terms,her book critically refines our current understanding of people's lives in the past and adds to a recent line of scholarship that questions just how common 'traditional' families really were.This book is both a social-economic study of singlewomen and a cultural study of the meanings of singleness in early modern England. It focuses on never-married women in England's provincial towns, and on singlewomen from a broad social spectrum. Covering the entire early modern era, it reveals that this was a time of transition in the history of never-married women. During the sixteenth century life-long singlewomen were largely absent from popular culture, but by the eighteenth century theyhad become a central concern of English society.As the first book of original research to focus on singlewomen on the period, it also illuminates other areas of early modern history. Froide reveals the importance of kinship in the past to women without husbands and children, as well as to widows, widowers, single men, and orphans. Examining the contributions of working and propertied singlewomen, she is able to illustrate the importance of gender and marital status to urban economies and to notions of urban citizenship in the early modernera. Tracing the origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes she reveals how singlewomen were marginalized as first the victims and then the villains of Protestant English society.
Author : Berit Brogaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199370737
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book On Romantic Love written by Berit Brogaard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions. Against the grain, Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees. We can love one person more than another and we can love a person a little or a lot or not at all. And love isn't even always something we consciously feel. However, love -- like other emotions, both conscious and not -- is subject to rational control, and falling in or out of it can be a deliberate choice. This engaging and innovative look at a universal topic, featuring original line drawings by illustrator Gareth Southwell, illuminates the processes behind heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, attachment, and more.
Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400076609
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reason written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason, one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for rolling back twenty years of radical conservative domination of our politics and political culture. To do so, Robert B. Reich shows how liberals can: .Shift the focus of the values debate from behavior in the bedroom to malfeasance in the boardroom .Remind Americans that real prosperity depends on fairness .Reclaim patriotism from those who equate it with pre-emptive war-making and the suppression of dissent If a single book has the potential to restore our country’s good name and common sense, it’s this one.
