Single Women: On the Margins?

by Tuula Gordon

Book Overview

Despite growing awareness of feminist sensibilities, single women remain polarized in the popular imagination. Either old maids or power women, they remain defined in relation to men--women who can't get, or, unnaturally, women who don't want a man. Through extensive historical research as well as interviews with dozens of women from San Francisco, London, and Helsinki, Tuula Gordon here forcefully exposes the artificial nature of this perceived dichotomy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814730647
• ISBN13: 9780814730645
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"