Singular Selves

Name: Singular Selves | An Introduction to Singles Studies
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An Introduction to Singles Studies

Ketaki Chowkhani Craig Wynne(Herausgeber*in)

Routledge India (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 31. Oktober 2023

196 Seiten

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This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today.

This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people's life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline.

This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.

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"Singular Selves, crucially underscoring that singleness is a viable way of being which deserves further scholarly attention, is a timely, vibrant, and politically engaged collection that promises to make a vital contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies."

Anthea Taylor, Associate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia

"I am very excited to see this volume come to life documenting such an important conference and representing so many different perspectives on singlehood. My hope is this book will stimulate the increasing research interest that the study of singlehood deserves."

Geoff Macdonald, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada

"In this ground-breaking collection of essays, Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne provide a foundation for Singles Studies and a roadmap for future analysis. With the increasing number of single people around the world, this book offers a fascinating, timely, and interdisciplinary look at how singlehood is viewed in a variety of contexts. Singular Selves is a major contribution to the study of singlehood and promises to become a classic work in this developing field of research and practice."

Prof Naomi Cahn, Research Professor in Democracy and Equity, University of Virginia School of Law, USA

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