Single : arguments for the uncoupled / Michael Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, Michael L.

Series:

Sexual Cultures

Sexual Cultures ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single people.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : NYU Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyoncé's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Inevitable Fatality of the Couple

2. The Probated Couple, or Our Polygamous Pioneers

3. The Shelter of Singles

4. Welcome to the Desert of Me

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-9049-6

OCLC:

782878106