Despite growing awareness of feminist sensibilities, single women remain polarized in the popular imagination. Either "old maids" or "power women," they remain defined in relation to men - women who "can't get," or, unnaturally, women who "don't want"...

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1. Verfasser:	Gordon, Tuula (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York New York Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:	1. publ. in the USA
Schlagworte:	Single women > Cross-cultural studies Alleinstehende Frau Soziologie
Zusammenfassung:	Despite growing awareness of feminist sensibilities, single women remain polarized in the popular imagination. Either "old maids" or "power women," they remain defined in relation to men - women who "can't get," or, unnaturally, women who "don't want" a man. Through extensive historical research as well as interviews with dozens of women from San Francisco, London, and Helsinki, Tuula Gordon here forcefully exposes the artificial nature of this perceived dichotomy The single woman is mistakenly seen to be a product of the twentieth century. Drawing on figures as diverse as Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, and the Amazons, Gordon brings to light a powerful tradition of single womanhood and calls the "marginality" of single women into question Conceptions of "woman" are important in shaping the possibilities and limitations of single women. A heterogeneous group in terms of occupation, ethnic grouping and sexual orientation, the women portrayed in this book serve to emphasize the diversity of single women, while indicating that their societal and cultural integration is still not wholly free of problems
Beschreibung:	VI, 224 S.
ISBN:	0814730639