interdisciplinary perspectives on being single
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bell, Rudolph M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Yans, Virginia > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Safa, Helen L.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 37 2008 - B
- Thesaurus
- alleenstaanden, weduwen, globalisering, echtscheidingen, politieke participatie, alleenstaande moeders, gehandicapten, moedergezinnen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are mostly seen as having elected to be 'footloose and fancy free.' Single women, however, over the past two centuries, have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable--attitudes that result in part from the long standing belief that a single woman would not have chosen her life. This collection of essays attempts to correct that bias by presenting a more complex view of single women. The writers give a broad definition of singleness, one that includes women who never married, those who co-habit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. They describe women who defiantly voted in political elections, single mothers who rejected dependency on public assistance programs, women who successfully ran businesses, and others who found fulfillment in charitable work.