This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, to understand singlehood in the world today.
This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, to understand singlehood in the world today.
Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, where she teaches India's first-ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Porn Studies, The New York Times, Square Peg, The Hindu , as well as in edited volumes published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press. Chowkhani has a PhD in Women's Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she researched sexuality education and adolescent masculinities in urban India. Craig Wynne is Associate Professor of English in the Division of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. His research interests include composition pedagogy, writing and psychology, Singles Studies, critical discourse analysis, and rhetoric and popular culture. He has presented at a variety of conferences on these subject areas, and his work has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, Journal of American Culture, Spark: A 4C4 Equality Journal, Revista Feminismos, Psychology Today, and Writer's Digest. He has recently published a book, How to Be a Happy Bachelor (Kendall-Hunt, 2020), which was inspired by his themed Composition courses on Singlehood and Marriage.
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List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne PART I Laying the Field 9 1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11 Bella DePaulo 2 What We Talk about When We (Don't) Talk about Singlehood 21 Adriana Savu 3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40 Kris Marsh and Olivia James PART II Singlehood, Media, and Literature 57 4 Singlehood and Valentine's Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59 Saumya Sharma 5 "New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions": Edith Wharton's Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77 Katherine A. Fama 6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92 Joan DelFattore 7 The Single Woman's Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse 104 Elizabeth Foulke PART III Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being 117 8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119 Laura Dales and Nora Kottmann 9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138 Elyakim Kislev 10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse Groups of Singles 151 Dominika Ochnik Afterword 169 Sarah Lamb Index 175
List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne PART I Laying the Field 9 1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11 Bella DePaulo 2 What We Talk about When We (Don't) Talk about Singlehood 21 Adriana Savu 3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40 Kris Marsh and Olivia James PART II Singlehood, Media, and Literature 57 4 Singlehood and Valentine's Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59 Saumya Sharma 5 "New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions": Edith Wharton's Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77 Katherine A. Fama 6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92 Joan DelFattore 7 The Single Woman's Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse 104 Elizabeth Foulke PART III Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being 117 8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119 Laura Dales and Nora Kottmann 9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138 Elyakim Kislev 10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse Groups of Singles 151 Dominika Ochnik Afterword 169 Sarah Lamb Index 175
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