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1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-150) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although the rise in the number of single-women households has sparked a new wave of singlehood scholarship, the concept remains relatively under-theorised and under-incorporated into social and feminist research, and critical studies in general. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural resources? including web columns, blogs, expert advice columns, popular cliches, advertisements and references from television episodes? this book sketches the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time in Israel. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. The linear life-course imperative -- 3. Singlehood as an unscheduled status passage -- 4. Facing the horror: becoming an "old maid" -- 5. On commodification: from wasted time to damaged goods -- 6. Taking a break -- 7. Waiting and queuing -- 8. Time work: keeping up appearances -- 9. Discussion: another time. |
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Single women -- Social conditions.
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Time -- Social aspects.
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Femmes seules -- Conditions sociales.
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Temps -- Aspect social.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Sociology.
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Sociology: family and relationships.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Single women -- Social conditions
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Time -- Social aspects
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| Indexed Term |
Sociology |
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Gender |
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women |
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sociology |
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family |
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relationships |
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marriage |
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parenting |
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single parenting |
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Bachelorette |
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Heteronormativity |
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Social norm |
| Other Form: |
Lahad, Kinneret. Table for one. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 9781526115393 (OCoLC)964538856 |
| ISBN |
9781526116369 (electronic bk.) |
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1526116367 (electronic bk.) |
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9781526116352 (open access) |
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1526116359 (open access) |
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9781526115393 (hbk.) |
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1526115395 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000060626760 |
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CHNEW 000978454 |
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CHVBK 504728385 |
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GBVCP 1014945259 |
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UKMGB 018377684 |
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UKMGB 020286202 |
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