Women on their own : interdisciplinary perspectives on being single / edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Rudolph M.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--Social conditions.

Single women.

Single women--Conduct of life.

Single women--Psychology.

Single women--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]

Contents:

1 Single Women in Ireland / Anne Byrne 16

2 Virgin Mothers: Single Women Negotiate the Doctrine of Motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo 40

3 Social and Emotional Well-Being of Single Women in Contemporary America / Deborah Carr 58

4 Widows at the Hustings: Gender, Citizenship, and the Montreal By-Election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury 82

5 Business Widows in Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis 115

6 "His Absent Presence": The Widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker 140

7 "Great Was the Benefit of His Death ": The Political Uses of Maria Weston Chapman's Widowhood / Lee V. Chambers 157

8 The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Widows, and the Lost Cause: "We Must Not Forget or Neglect the Widows" / Jennifer L. Gross 180

9 Modernity's Miss-Fits: Blind Girls and Marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick 201

10 The Times That Tried Only Men's Souls: Women, Work, and Public Policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson 219

11 Globalization, Inequality, and the Growth of Female-Headed Households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813542102

0813542103

9780813542119

0813542111

OCLC:

85813991