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Women on Their Own : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single by Rudolph M. Bell, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Rudolph Bell, Virginia Yans, Anne Byrne, Bettina Bradbury is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Despite what would seem some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are rarely considered "lonely" or aberrant. They are not pitied. Rather, they are seen as having chosen to be "footloose and fancy free" to have sports cars, boats, and enjoy a series of unrestrictive relationships. Single women, however, do not enjoy such an esteemed reputation. Instead they have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable-attitudes that result in part from the long-standing belief that single women would not have chosen her life. Even the single career-woman is seldom viewed as enjoying the success she has achieved. No one believes she is truly fulfilled.<br> <br> Modern American culture has raised generations of women who believed that their true and most important role in society was to get married and have children. Anything short of this role was considered abnormal, unfulfilling, and suspect. This female stereotype has been exploited and perpetuated by some key films in the late 40's and early 50's. But more recently we have seen a shift in the cultural view of the spinster. The erosion of the traditional nuclear family,

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Author

Rudolph M. Bell, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Rudolph Bell, Virginia Yans, Anne Byrne, Bettina Bradbury

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611397173

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Psychology