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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, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 467 g
  • Seiten: 196
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 15 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Themen


Autoren/Hrsg.

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List of Figures ixList of Tables xList of Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig WynnePART ILaying the Field 91 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11Bella DePaulo2 What We Talk about When We (Don't) Talk about Singlehood 21Adriana Savu3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40Kris Marsh and Olivia JamesPART IISinglehood, Media, and Literature 574 Singlehood and Valentine's Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59Saumya Sharma5 "New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions": Edith Wharton's Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77Katherine A. Fama6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92Joan DelFattore7 The Single Woman's Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse 104Elizabeth FoulkePART IIISinglehood, Space, and Well-Being 1178 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119Laura Dales and Nora Kottmann9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138Elyakim Kislev10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among DiverseGroups of Singles 151Dominika OchnikAfterword 169Sarah LambIndex 175