A Table for One : A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time /
Lahad, Kinneret,
A Table for One : A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time / Kinneret Lahad. - 1 online resource (162 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
1. Introduction -- 2. The linear life-course imperative -- 3. Singlehood as an unscheduled status passage -- 4. Facing the horror: becoming an "old maid" -- 5. On commodification: from wasted time to damaged goods -- 6. Taking a break -- 7. Waiting and queuing -- 8. Time work: keeping up appearances -- 9. Discussion: another time.
Open Access
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although the rise in the number of single-women households has sparked a new wave of singlehood scholarship, the concept remains relatively under-theorised and under-incorporated into social and feminist research, and critical studies in general. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural resources? including web columns, blogs, expert advice columns, popular cliches, advertisements and references from television episodes? this book sketches the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time in Israel.
9781526116352
Time--Social aspects.
Single women--Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gender Studies.
Sociology: family and relationships.
Sociology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Temps--Aspect social.
Femmes seules--Conditions sociales.
Time--Social aspects.
Single women--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
A Table for One : A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time / Kinneret Lahad. - 1 online resource (162 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
1. Introduction -- 2. The linear life-course imperative -- 3. Singlehood as an unscheduled status passage -- 4. Facing the horror: becoming an "old maid" -- 5. On commodification: from wasted time to damaged goods -- 6. Taking a break -- 7. Waiting and queuing -- 8. Time work: keeping up appearances -- 9. Discussion: another time.
Open Access
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although the rise in the number of single-women households has sparked a new wave of singlehood scholarship, the concept remains relatively under-theorised and under-incorporated into social and feminist research, and critical studies in general. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural resources? including web columns, blogs, expert advice columns, popular cliches, advertisements and references from television episodes? this book sketches the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time in Israel.
9781526116352
Time--Social aspects.
Single women--Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gender Studies.
Sociology: family and relationships.
Sociology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Temps--Aspect social.
Femmes seules--Conditions sociales.
Time--Social aspects.
Single women--Social conditions.
Electronic books.