Women on their own [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives on being single / edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans.
by
Bell, Rudolph M.
ISBN
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9780813544014
9781281397171
Title
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Women on their own [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives on being single / edited by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans.
Author
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Bell, Rudolph M.
Publication Information
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) : illustrations
Contents
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Introduction / Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans -- Single women in Ireland / Anne Byrne -- Virgin mothers: single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Social and emotional well-being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr -- Widows at the Hastings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Business widows in nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- "His absent presence": the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker -- "Great was the benefit of his death": the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers -- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause: "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross -- Modernity's miss-fits: blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick -- The times that tried only men's souls: women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson -- Globablization, inequality, and the growth of female-headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.
Local Note
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject Term
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Single women -- Social conditions.
Single women -- Conduct of life.
Single women -- Psychology.
Single women -- Case studies.
Added Author
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Bell, Rudolph M.
Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, 1943-
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2008
Publication Information
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
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306.8153091821 22 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |