Titlebook: Single Women in Popular Culture; The Limits of Postfe Anthea Taylor Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Introduction,sequence of the intense public focus upon her, the ‘Single Woman’ has even been pronounced a ‘cultural obsession’ (Dux & Simic, 2008, p. 77). Rather optimistically, I would argue, some critics have celebrated this as evidence of a ‘new cultural affirmation’ of being single (Macvarish, 2006), designa

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,Theorizing Women’s Singleness: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Popular Culture,nd autonomy at the cost of a husband and, perhaps more importantly, a nuclear family.. Arguably there is nothing new about the single woman being a problematic figure in mainstream media culture and in Western discourse more broadly; currently, however, she is made-to-mean in a number of competing w

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From the Second-wave to Postfeminism: Single Women in the Mediasphere,my analysis with the present, and engaging especially with journalistic constructions of women’s singleness from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, I work backwards to consider some of the most prominent single women in Western popular culture’s history. I do this as a way to disru

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Spinsters and Singletons: , and its Cultural Reverberations,Young, 2006, p. 4), this chapter initially contextualizes . within the chick lit genre, before offering a detailed engagement with Fielding’s text (and, to a lesser extent, its sequel and film adaptations), and how its heroine has come to mediate public constructions of women’s singleness from the m

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Desperate and Dateless TV: Making Over the Single Woman,levision as a whole (if not to popular culture more broadly). It is in such programmes that the single woman-as-lack becomes most evident and men, in apparently limited supply, become conceptualized as ‘prizes’ for which women must quite literally compete. That is, as outlined in previous chapters,

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Self-Help and the Single Girl: From Salvation to Validation,ose is apparent self-correction, as a number of critics have emphasized (Kaminer, 1992; Rimke, 2000; McGee, 2005), what is it about the single woman that needs ‘fixing’? Within these therapeutic discourses, what kinds of single selves are considered ‘healthy’, or indeed ‘unhealthy’ (Hazleden, 2003)?

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Blogging Solo: Women Refiguring Singleness,r distinction between what can be called dating singles’ blogs, which centre on how to find (and secure) a mate, and those considered here. That is, the blogosphere is not . oppositional or progressive as far as single women are concerned. As Graeme Turner argues, ‘there is nothing inherent in these

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Anthea Taylorve subjects, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and notes sections, highlighting tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls...Author978-1-4939-5653-1978-1-60761-533-0Series ISSN 1064-3745 Series E-ISSN 1940-6029

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Anthea Taylorve subjects, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and notes sections, highlighting tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls...Author978-1-4939-5653-1978-1-60761-533-0Series ISSN 1064-3745 Series E-ISSN 1940-6029

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