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Spinster
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Author : Kate Bolick
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2015-04-21
Spinster written by Kate Bolick and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with Social Science categories.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
Spinsters
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Author : Pagan Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: High Risk Books
Release Date : 1995
Spinsters written by Pagan Kennedy and has been published by High Risk Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally free from family ties and constraints. Taking off in their Plymouth Valient, they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
The Spinster And Her Enemies
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Author : Sheila Jeffreys
language : en
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Release Date : 1997
The Spinster And Her Enemies written by Sheila Jeffreys and has been published by Spinifex Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
Annotation. This feminist text is released here with a revised and updated introduction. It examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s.
Spinster Tales And Womanly Possibilities
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Author : Naomi Braun Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Spinster Tales And Womanly Possibilities written by Naomi Braun Rosenthal and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's life and demise by using stories from the Ladies' Home Journal (from 1890, 1913, and 1933), along with Hollywood films from the 1940s and 1950s, such as It's a Wonderful Life; Now, Voyager; and Summertime, among others. Originally invoked as a symbol of female independence a hundred years ago, when marriage and career were considered to be incompatible choices for women, spinsterhood was advocated as an alternate path by some and viewed as a threat to family life by others. Today, there are few traces of the spinster's existence—the options open to women have dramatically changed—but we continue to grapple with concerns about women's desires and "the future of the family."
Gentlemen Prefer Spinsters
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Author : Samantha Holt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-06
Gentlemen Prefer Spinsters written by Samantha Holt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-06 with categories.
The first rule of the Spinsters Club is: You do not talk about the Spinsters Club.The second rule of the Spinsters Club is: You do not talk about the Spinsters Club.The third rule...Well, Merry understands the rules of the Spinsters Club fully, considering it was her idea in the first place. When one of her good friends loses her heart to an utter rogue and is ruined forever, she's determined that the life of a spinster is for her. Thankfully, she's not alone. Her three dearest friends have had their share of heartbreak and resolve to join her. No matter what the demanding mamas and papas of the world say, they will not give up their spinsterhood.Particularly not to the handsome Lord Harcourt Easton, the Earl of Langley. Merry has always liked Harcourt-after all he is her brother's best friend-but she cannot fathom his sudden interest in her. After all, he was well known to be quite the rogue at times and she's hardly the sort to attract the attention of a rake. But Harcourt has loved Merry for some time now. And he's determined to make her see that. If only he could get past this stubborn determination that she should never marry and convince her he's the man for her.The death of her father and some strange incidents that put Merry in danger might not be ideal circumstances to woo a woman, but Harcourt is willing to make the best of a dire situation-especially while Merry needs a shoulder to cry on. Harcourt could well be the most amazing man she knows, and Merry cannot help but be grateful for his support, but she cannot very well turn her back on the Spinsters Club so soon...can she?
The Merry Lives Of Spinsters
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Author : Rebecca Connolly
language : en
Publisher: Phase Publishing
Release Date : 2018-05
The Merry Lives Of Spinsters written by Rebecca Connolly and has been published by Phase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05 with categories.
Spinster is as spinster does... Georgiana Allen is a spinster and everybody knows it. She also happens to be one of the writers for the Spinster Chronicles, and everybody knows that as well. She's accepted her lot in life, and, along with the other spinsters in her circle, takes great pride in the articles she writes and the influence she has. Then Captain Anthony Sterling infiltrates their group, and her life, and Georgie impossibly begins to hope once more. Tony Sterling had no idea what to expect when he agreed to break up the Spinsters for his cousin, but he certainly did not expect Georgie Allen. From the very first meeting, she upends everything he thought a spinster would be, and her beauty and wit keeps him on edge in thrilling ways. The more he gets to know the Spinsters, the less he wants to break them up. And the more he wants Georgie in his life. Permanently.
Spinsters Song
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Author : Parris Afton Bonds
language : en
Publisher: Silhouette
Release Date : 1985
Spinsters Song written by Parris Afton Bonds and has been published by Silhouette this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Single women categories.
Spinsters And Lesbians
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Author : Trisha Franzen
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1996
Spinsters And Lesbians written by Trisha Franzen and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen brings to light the remarkable lives of two generations of autonomous women: Progressive Era spinsters and mid-twentieth century lesbians. While both groups of women followed similar paths to independence--separating from their families, pursuing education, finding work, and creating woman-centered communities--they faced different material and cultural challenge and came to claim very different identities. Many of the turn-of-the-century women were prominent during their time, from internationally recognized classicist Edith Hamilton through two early Directors of the Women's Bureau, Mary Anderson and Freida Miller. Maturing during the time of a broad and powerful women's movement, they were among that era's new women, the often-single women who were viewed as in the vanguard of women's struggle for equality. In contrast, never-married women after World War II, especially lesbians, were considered beyond the pale of real womanhood. Before the women's and gay/lesbian liberation movements, they had no positive contemporary images of alternative lives for women. Highlighting the similarities and differences between women-oriented women confronting changing gender and sexuality systems, Spinsters and Lesbians thus traces a continuum among women who constructed lives outside institutionalized heterosexuality.
Women Alone
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Author : Bridget Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-12
Women Alone written by Bridget Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-12 with History categories.
We know very little about spinsters in earlier times, for the stigma attached to the unmarried state often rendered these women almost invisible. Now this fascinating books opens a window into the lives of English spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and the restrictions placed upon them within different social classes, occupations and periods. Bridget Hill exmaines how often spinsters were able to earn enough money to live independently, what provision the Poor Law made for them if they did not, whether extreme poverty led to their involvement in crime or prostitution, and, if they stayed in the parental home, what kind of lives they led. She looks at the part single women played in religious organisations and the role of friendship and letter writing in their daily lives. She describes the nature of close relationships between women, some lesbian but many others not. Exploring the spinsters' possibilities of escape from restrictive lives - particularly by emigration or cross-dressing - she discusses how successful these were.She provides details about the degree of surveillance single women suffered from the authorities and how often they were seen as a threat to social order. Finally she addresses the question of whether all spinsters of this era were suffering victims, potential viragoes - or neither. Bridget Hill was until her retirement staff tutor in history at the Open University.
Toilers And Spinsters
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Author : Thackeray
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Toilers And Spinsters written by Thackeray and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.