{"product_id":"singular-selves-9781032292755","title":"Singular Selves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSingular Selves\u003c\/i\u003e, crucially underscoring that singleness is a viable way of being which deserves further scholarly attention, is a timely, vibrant, and politically engaged collection that promises to make a vital contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthea Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAssociate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am very excited to see this volume come to life documenting such an important conference and representing so many different perspectives on singlehood. My hope is this book will stimulate the increasing research interest that the study of singlehood deserves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoff Macdonald, \u003ci\u003ePhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this ground-breaking collection of essays, Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne provide a foundation for Singles Studies and a roadmap for future analysis. With the increasing number of single people around the world, this book offers a fascinating, timely, and interdisciplinary look at how singlehood is viewed in a variety of contexts. \u003ci\u003eSingular Selves \u003c\/i\u003eis a major contribution to the study of singlehood and promises to become a classic work in this developing field of research and practice.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProf Naomi Cahn, \u003ci\u003eResearch Professor in Democracy and Equity, University of Virginia School of Law, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables x\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKetaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaying the Field 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBella DePaulo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 What We Talk about When We (Don’t) Talk about Singlehood 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdriana Savu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKris Marsh and Olivia James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinglehood, Media, and Literature 57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Singlehood and Valentine’s Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaumya Sharma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 “New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions”: Edith Wharton’s Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine A. Fama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Unwitting \u003ci\u003eW;t\u003c\/i\u003e: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan DelFattore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Single Woman’s Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003e104\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Foulke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinglehood, Space, and Well-Being 117\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Dales and Nora Kottmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElyakim Kislev\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGroups of Singles 151\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominika Ochnik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword 169\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Lamb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex 175\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018953425239,"sku":"9781032292755","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032292755.jpg?v=1750778802","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singular-selves-9781032292755","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}