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Women on their own :

(Number (ISBN

0813544017

(Number (ISBN

1281397172

(Number (ISBN

9780813544014

(Number (ISBN

9781281397171

Erroneous ISBN

0813542103

Erroneous ISBN

0813542111

Erroneous ISBN

9780813542102

Erroneous ISBN

9780813542119

Number

b740540

Title Proper

Women on their own :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

interdisciplinary perspectives on being single /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Brunswick, N.J. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rutgers University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction / Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans -- Single women in Ireland / Anne Byrne -- Virgin mothers: single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Social and emotional well-being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr -- Widows at the Hastings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Business widows in nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- "His absent presence": the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker -- "Great was the benefit of his death": the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers -- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause: "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross -- Modernity's miss-fits: blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick -- The times that tried only men's souls: women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson -- Globablization, inequality, and the growth of female-headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.

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Despite some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are rarely considered lonely, aberrant, or pitiable. Rather, they are seen as having elected to be "footloose and fancy free." Single women, however, do not enjoy such an enviable reputation. Instead, over the past two centuries, they have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable--attitudes that result in part from the longstanding belief that a single woman would not have chosen her life. This collection of eleven original essays attempts to correct that bias by present.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt4jx0j8

Title

Women on their own.

International Standard Book Number

0813542103

Single women-- Conduct of life.

Single women-- Psychology.

Single women-- Social conditions.

Single women, Case studies.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Marriage.

HISTORY-- General.

Single women-- Conduct of life.

Single women-- Psychology.

Single women-- Social conditions.

Single women.

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SOC028000

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Edition

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Book number

Bell, Rudolph M.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia,1943-

Date of Transaction

20201204012537.0

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[Book]

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