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1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Single women -- Social conditions.
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Single women -- Social conditions. |
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Single women. |
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Single women -- Conduct of life.
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Single women -- Conduct of life. |
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Single women -- Psychology.
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Single women -- Psychology. |
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Single women -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Bell, Rudolph M.
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Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women on their own. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008 9780813542102 0813542103 (DLC) 2007008412 (OCoLC)85813991 |
| ISBN |
9780813544014 (electronic book) |
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0813544017 (electronic book) |
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1281397172 |
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9781281397171 |
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0813542103 (Cloth) |
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0813542111 (Paper) |
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9780813542102 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813542119 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611397173 |
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