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Chowkhani / Wynne

Singular Selves

An Introduction to Singles Studies

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-25842-3
Verlag: Routledge India
Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2023
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This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today.

This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline.

This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032258423
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-25842-3
  • Verlag: Routledge India
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2023
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2023
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 467 g
  • Seiten: 196
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Themen


Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

List of Figures ix

List of Tables x

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne

PART I

Laying the Field 9

1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11

Bella DePaulo

2 What We Talk about When We (Don’t) Talk about Singlehood 21

Adriana Savu

3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40

Kris Marsh and Olivia James

PART II

Singlehood, Media, and Literature 57

4 Singlehood and Valentine’s Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59

Saumya Sharma

5 “New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions”: Edith Wharton’s Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77

Katherine A. Fama

6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92

Joan DelFattore

7 The Single Woman’s Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse 104

Elizabeth Foulke

PART III

Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being 117

8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119

Laura Dales and Nora Kottmann

9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138

Elyakim Kislev

10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse

Groups of Singles 151

Dominika Ochnik

Afterword 169

Sarah Lamb

Index 175