Singular Selves

List of Figures ix

List of Tables x

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne

PART I

Laying the Field 9

1 Changing Thinking, Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Power and Promise of Singles Studies 11

Bella DePaulo

2 What We Talk about When We (Don't) Talk about Singlehood 21

Adriana Savu

3 Single (Never Married), Black, and Middle Class by the Numbers 40

Kris Marsh and Olivia James

PART II

Singlehood, Media, and Literature 57

4 Singlehood and Valentine's Day: A Study of Discursive Representations and Emotions in the Media 59

Saumya Sharma

5 "New Uncertainties and Fresh Concessions": Edith Wharton's Ambivalent Single Fictions of Middle Age 77

Katherine A. Fama

6 Unwitting W;t: A Case Study in the Relationship between Literary Stereotypes and Real-Life Discrimination 92

Joan DelFattore

7 The Single Woman's Thousand Shapes of Love in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse 104

Elizabeth Foulke

PART III

Singlehood, Space, and Well-Being 117

8 Japanese Singles and Solo-Life 119

Laura Dales and Nora Kottmann

9 Singles in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges 138

Elyakim Kislev

10 Exploring Satisfaction with Singlehood among Diverse

Groups of Singles 151

Dominika Ochnik

Afterword 169

Sarah Lamb

Index 175

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interdisciplinary social sciences;demographic analysis;cultural identity studies;media representation research;medical humanities perspectives;workplace diversity research;intersectionality in singlehood studies