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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Situating Single Lives / Katherine Fama and Jorie Lagerwey -- Part I. Singles Studies: Archives and Methods -- 1. Searching for Singles: Archival Approaches for Singleness Studies and Black Women's Collections / Andreá N. Williams -- 2. Reclaiming Single Women's Work: Gender, Melodrama, and the Processes of Adaptation in The Best of Everything / Jennifer S. Clark -- 3. Recovering Single Biography: Jane Armstrong Tucker, Illness, and the Single Life / Elizabeth DeWolfe -- Part II. Familiar Figures: Representing and Reforming the Single Woman -- 4. Becoming Single: Gidget "Betwixt and Between / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony": The Unmarried Flapper in Literature and on Screen / Martina Mastandrea -- 6. Neither Betwixt nor Between: Divorced Mothers in the United States, 1920-1965 / Kristin Celello -- 7. Serves One: Exploring Representations of Female Singleness in American Cookbooks / Ursula Kania -- Part III. Singles at Home: Domestic Labors -- 8. Feeling "Like a Queen": Later-Life Single Women at Home in Modern American Short Fiction / Katherine Fama -- 9. "Spinsters' Rest"? The Discomforts of Home in British Women's Short Stories of the 1920s to the 1940s / Emma Liggins -- 10. All the Single Nannies: Reforming Elite Domesticity and the Cultural Imaginary / Ann Mattis -- Afterword / Benjamin Kahan -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
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Lagerwey, Jorie.
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Williams, Andreá N.
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Clark, Jennifer S.
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DeWolfe, Elizabeth.
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Wojcik, Pamela Robertson.
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Mastandrea, Martina.
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Celello, Kristin.
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Kania, Ursula.
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Liggins, Emma.
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9781978828551 (electronic bk.) |
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9781978828520 |
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