Bachelor Girl 100 Years of Breaking the Rules--A Social History of Living Single

Name: Bachelor Girl 100 Years of Breaking the Rules--A Social History of Living Single
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ISBN: 9780380797783

ISBN-10: 038079778X

ISBN-13: 9780380797783

Edition: N/A

Authors: Betsy Israel

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Women's Studies Journalist Betsy Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women -- and how they have been perceived -- throughout the decades using primary sources, including private journals, newspapers, and other materials from popular media. From the nineteenth-century spinsters of New England to the Bowery girls of New York City, to the career girls of the 1950s and 1960s, single women have fought to find, and feel comfortable in, that room of their own. One need only look at Bridget Jones and the Sex and the City gang to see that single women still maintain an uneasy relationship with the rest of society -- and yet radiate glamour and mystery. Bachelor Girl shines a…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.704