Week of July 9, 2012

THE SINGLE LIFE

In the News: Unmarried. Bachelor. Unattached. Bachelorette. Eligible. Single.
Now that previous posts have focused on love and marriage (here, here and here) – and even divorce – what’s next? This week we highlight books and videos on being single.

 

About a Boy
By Nick Hornby. Riverhead Books, 2002
Call Number: PR6058 .O689 A64 2002

About a Boy (DVD)
Directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. Universal, 2002
Call Number: PN1997.2 .A265 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of the Single Woman in the Twentieth Century
By Betsy Israel. William Morrow, 2002
Call Number: HQ800.2 .I85 2002

Bachelorette, 34 (DVD)
Directed by Kara Herold. New Day Films, 2009
Call Number: HQ800.2 .B33 2009 (Boca Raton Media Center)

How to Parent Alone: A Guide for Single Parents
By Joan Bel Geddes. Seabury Press, 1974
Call Number: HQ734 .B514

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
By Eric Klinenberg, 2012
Call Number: HQ800.4 .U6 K56 2012

Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England
By Amy M. Froide. Oxford University Press, 2005
Call Number: HQ800.4 .G72 E544 2005 (Also available online via Oxford Scholarship)

The New Single Woman
By E. Kay Trimberger. Beacon Press, 2005
Call Number: HQ800.2 .T75 2005

The Rights of Single People
By Mitchell Bernard et al., 1985
Call Number: KF475 .Z9 R54 1985

Single Life: Unmarried Adults in Social Context
Edited by Peter J. Stein. St. Martin’s, 1981
Call Number: HQ800.4 .U6 S545 1981

Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Edited by Diane Mapes. Seal Press, 2007
Call Number: HQ800.4 .U6 S547 2007

The Single Woman and the Fairytale Prince
By Jean-Claude Kaufmann. Polity, 2008
Call Number: HQ800.2 .K3813 2008

Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism
By Anthea Taylor. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Call Number: HQ800.2 .T.39 2012

Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
By Virginia Nicholson. Oxford University Press, 2008
Call Number: D639 .W7 N73 2008

Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865
By Christine Jacobson Carter. University of Illinois Press, 2006
Call Number: HQ1438 .S63 C37 2006

Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture
By Katherine J. Lehman. University Press of Kansas, 2011
Call Number: PN1995.9 .S547 L45 2011

The Unmarried in Later Life
By Pat M. Keith. Praeger, 1989
Call Number: HQ1064 .U5 K43 1989 (At Jupiter)

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City
By David T. Courtwright. Harvard University Press, 1996
Call Number: HN90 .V5 C68 1996

What’s Wrong with Being Single?
By Maryam Jorjani. E-reads, 2002
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

Why Women Shouldn’t Marry: Being Single by Choice
By Cynthia S. Smith & Hillary B. Smith. Barricade Books, 2008
Call Number: HQ800.2 .S65 2008

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single
Edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans. Rutgers University Press, 2008
Call Number: HQ800.2 .W66 2008 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)