Women on their own, interdisciplinary perspectives on being single, edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans
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Women on their own, interdisciplinary perspectives on being single, edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Women on their own
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bibliography
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85813991
Responsibility statement
edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans
Review
"This collection of eleven original essays attempts to present a more complex view of single women. The writers embrace a broad definition of singleness, one that includes women who never married, those who co-habit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. They describe women who defiantly voted in political elections, single mothers who rejected dependency on public assistance programs, women who successfully ran businesses, and others who found fulfillment in charitable work. Collectively, the self-reliance, creativity; and power to redefine difficult situations that these women demonstrate make a powerful statement about the successes of women on their own."--Jacket
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interdisciplinary perspectives on being single
Table of contents
Introduction / Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans -- Single women in Ireland / Anne Byrne -- Virgin mothers: single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Social and emotional well-being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr -- Widows at the Hustings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Business widows in nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- "His absent presence": the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker -- "Great was the benefit of his death": the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers -- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause: "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross -- Modernity's miss-fits: blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick -- The times that tried only men's souls: women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson -- Globablization, inequality, and the growth of female-headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa
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