{"id":5844,"date":"2012-07-08T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2012-07-08T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T17:20:50","slug":"the-single-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/the-single-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Single Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of July 9, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE SINGLE LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em>Unmarried. Bachelor. Unattached. Bachelorette. Eligible. Single.
\nNow that previous posts have focused on love and marriage (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) \u2013 and even divorce<\/a> \u2013 what\u2019s next? This week we highlight books and videos on being single.<\/p>\n

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About a Boy
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Nick Hornby. Riverhead Books, 2002
\nCall Number: PR6058 .O689 A64 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

About a Boy<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>(DVD)
\n<\/em>Directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. Universal, 2002
\nCall Number: PN1997.2 .A265 2002<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of the Single Woman in the Twentieth Century
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Betsy Israel. William Morrow, 2002
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .I85 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

Bachelorette, 34<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>(DVD)
\n<\/em>Directed by Kara Herold. New Day Films, 2009
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .B33 2009<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

How to Parent Alone: A Guide for Single Parents
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Joan Bel Geddes. Seabury Press, 1974
\nCall Number: HQ734 .B514<\/a><\/p>\n

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Eric Klinenberg, 2012
\nCall Number: HQ800.4 .U6 K56 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Amy M. Froide. Oxford University Press, 2005
\nCall Number: HQ800.4 .G72 E544 2005<\/a> (Also available online via Oxford Scholarship<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The New Single Woman
\n<\/em><\/strong>By E. Kay Trimberger. Beacon Press, 2005
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .T75 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rights of Single People
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Mitchell Bernard et al., 1985
\nCall Number: KF475 .Z9 R54 1985<\/a><\/p>\n

Single Life: Unmarried Adults in Social Context
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Peter J. Stein. St. Martin\u2019s, 1981
\nCall Number: HQ800.4 .U6 S545 1981<\/a><\/p>\n

Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Diane Mapes. Seal Press, 2007
\nCall Number: HQ800.4 .U6 S547 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Single Woman and the Fairytale Prince<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jean-Claude Kaufmann. Polity, 2008
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .K3813 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Anthea Taylor. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .T.39 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Virginia Nicholson. Oxford University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: D639 .W7 N73 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Christine Jacobson Carter. University of Illinois Press, 2006
\nCall Number: HQ1438 .S63 C37 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Katherine J. Lehman. University Press of Kansas, 2011
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .S547 L45 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

The Unmarried in Later Life
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Pat M. Keith. Praeger, 1989
\nCall Number: HQ1064 .U5 K43 1989<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David T. Courtwright. Harvard University Press, 1996
\nCall Number: HN90 .V5 C68 1996<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s Wrong with Being Single?
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Maryam Jorjani. E-reads, 2002
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Women Shouldn\u2019t Marry: Being Single by Choice
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Cynthia S. Smith & Hillary B. Smith. Barricade Books, 2008
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .S65 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans. Rutgers University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: HQ800.2 .W66 2008<\/a> (Also available online via EBSCOhost<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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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) \u2013 and even divorce \u2013 what\u2019s next? This week we highlight books and videos on being single.   About a Boy By Nick Hornby. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[833,831,832],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news","tag-popular-culture","tag-single-people","tag-unmarried"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}