Single Women in Popular Culture

Single Women in Popular Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780230358607
ISBN-13 : 0230358608
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Single Women in Popular Culture by : A. Taylor

Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture.

All the Single Ladies

All the Single Ladies
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781476716572
ISBN-13 : 1476716579
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis All the Single Ladies by : Rebecca Traister

"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--

Single Lives

Single Lives
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781978828513
ISBN-13 : 1978828519
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Single Lives by : Katherine Fama

Inspired by the current public fascination with single women, Single Lives traces the relationship between modern and contemporary representations of single women. The original essays collected here analyze a broad range of texts that examine the ways films, cookbooks, archives, popular literature, and other British and American texts express norms, ideals, and challenges for single women and their relationship to dominant ideals of marriage and the family. This volume looks backwards to constellate existing scholarship, constituent fields, and unrecognized single voices and forward to consider new methods for interdisciplinary singles studies.

Those Girls

Those Girls
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Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780700618088
ISBN-13 : 0700618082
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Those Girls by : Katherine J. Lehman

Long before Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, there was Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Every week, as Mary flung her beret into the air while the theme song proclaimed, “You’re gonna make it after all,” it seemed that young, independent women like herself had finally arrived. But as Katherine Lehman reveals, the struggle to create accurate portrayals of successful single women for American TV and cinema during the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t as simple as the toss of a hat. Those Girls is the first book to focus exclusively on struggles to define the “single girl” character in TV and film during a transformative period in American society. Lehman has scoured a wide range of source materials—unstudied film and television scripts, magazines, novels, and advertisements—to demonstrate how controversial female characters pitted fears of societal breakdown against the growing momentum of the women’s rights movement. Lehman’s book focuses on the “single girl”—an unmarried career woman in her 20s or 30s—to show how this character type symbolized sweeping changes in women’s roles. Analyzing films and programs against broader conceptions of women’s sexual and social roles, she uncovers deep-seated fears in a nation accustomed to depictions of single women yearning for matrimony. Yet, as television began to reflect public acceptance of career women, series such as Police Woman and Wonder Woman proved that heroines could wield both strength and femininity—while movies like Looking for Mr. Goodbar cautioned viewers against carrying new-found freedom too far. Lehman takes us behind the scenes in Hollywood to show us the production decisions and censorship negotiations that shaped these characters before they even made it to the screen. She includes often-overlooked sources such as the TV series Get Christie Love and Ebony magazine to give us a richer understanding of how women of color negotiated urban singles life. And she reveals how trailblazing characters continue to influence portrayals of single women in shows like Mad Men. This entertaining and insightful study examines familiar characters caught between the competing fears and aspirations of a society rethinking its understanding of social and sexual mores. Those Girls reassesses feminine genres that are often marginalized in media scholarship and contributes to a greater valuation of the unmarried, independent woman in America.

The Single Woman

The Single Woman
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781134135141
ISBN-13 : 1134135149
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Single Woman by : Jill Reynolds

Single women are a crucial group for study in relation to perceived changes in family life and relationships. This book provides a new understanding of what is often taken for granted - female single identity.

Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 778
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ISBN-10 : 9781440874130
ISBN-13 : 1440874131
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes] by : Laura L. Finley

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

Singlism

Singlism
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Publisher : Doubledoor Books
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 0615486789
ISBN-13 : 9780615486789
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Singlism by : Bella Depaulo Phd

A social psychologist examines the widespread cultural bias against unmarried adults, debunks commonly held myths about singlehood, and challenges the financial, social, economic, and other discrimination that single adults confront.

Sex and the Single Woman

Sex and the Single Woman
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780063071346
ISBN-13 : 0063071347
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Sex and the Single Woman by : Eliza Smith

One of Bustle's Best Books of May A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Kristen Arnett, Morgan Parker, Evette Dionne, and Melissa Febos. Sixty years ago, Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl sent shockwaves through the United States, selling more than two million copies in three weeks. Helen’s message was radical for its time: marriage wasn’t essential for women to lead rich, fulfilling lives. Now, in these critical, wry, and expansive essays, twenty-four writers reconsider Helen’s advice and how it applies to their own paths, fielding topics that she couldn’t—or wouldn’t—conceive of in 1962: contraception and abortion (an omission demanded by her publisher), queer and trans womanhood, polyamory, celibacy, interracial dating, bodies of all kinds, consent, sex work, IVF, and the pop culture that both saves and fails us. Eliza Smith and Haley Swanson’s revisionist anthology honors Brown’s irreverent spirit while also validating our modern experiences of singlehood, encouraging us all to reclaim joy where it’s so often been denied.

Wallowing in Sex

Wallowing in Sex
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 0822339196
ISBN-13 : 9780822339199
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Wallowing in Sex by : Elana Levine

DIVA cultural history of sexual content in television shows and TV advertising during the 1970s./div

The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9783319408293
ISBN-13 : 3319408291
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture by : Emma Sterry

This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.