Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Laying the Field
	Chapter 1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies
	Chapter 2 What We Talk about When We (Don’t) Talk about Singlehood
	Chapter 3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers
Part II Singlehood, Media, and Literature
	Chapter 4 Singlehood and Valentine’s Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media
	Chapter 5 “New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions”1: Edith Wharton’s Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age
	Chapter 6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination
	Chapter 7 The Single Woman’s Thousand Shapes1 of Love in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Part III Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being
	Chapter 8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life
	Chapter 9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges
	Chapter 10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse Groups of Singles
	Afterword
Index