Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies

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Ketaki Chowkhani (Manipal Centre for Humanities, Karnataka, India.) Craig Wynne (University of the District of Columbia, USA)

Singular Selves

An Introduction to Singles Studies

Ketaki Chowkhani (Manipal Centre for Humanities, Karnataka, India.), Craig Wynne (University of the District of Columbia, USA)

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Routledge India
31 October 2023

Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies; Humanities; Media studies; Psychological theory & schools of thought

This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today.

This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline.

This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.

Edited by: Ketaki Chowkhani (Manipal Centre for Humanities Karnataka India.), Craig Wynne (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781032258423
ISBN 10: 103225842X
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, where she teaches India’s first-ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Porn Studies, The New York Times, Square Peg, The Hindu, as well as in edited volumes published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press. Chowkhani has a PhD in Women’s Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she researched sexuality education and adolescent masculinities in urban India. Craig Wynne is Associate Professor of English in the Division of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. His research interests include composition pedagogy, writing and psychology, Singles Studies, critical discourse analysis, and rhetoric and popular culture. He has presented at a variety of conferences on these subject areas, and his work has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, Journal of American Culture, Spark: A 4C4 Equality Journal, Revista Feminismos, Psychology Today, and Writer’s Digest. He has recently published a book, How to Be a Happy Bachelor (Kendall-Hunt, 2020), which was inspired by his themed Composition courses on Singlehood and Marriage.

Reviews for Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies

Singular Selves, crucially underscoring that singleness is a viable way of being whichdeserves further scholarly attention, is a timely, vibrant, and politically-engaged collectionthat promises to make a vital contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of SinglesStudies. Anthea Taylor, Associate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia. I am very excited to see this volume come to life documenting such an important conference and representing somany different perspectives on singlehood. My hope is this book will stimulate the increasing research interest thatthe study of singlehood deserves. Geoff Macdonald, PHD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. In this ground-breaking collection of essays, Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne provide a foundation forSIngles Studies and a roadmap for future analysis. With the increasing number of single people around theworld, this book offers a fascinating, timely, and interdisciplinary look at how singlehood is viewed in a varietyof contexts. SIngular Selvesis a major contribution to the study of singlehood and promises to become aclassic work in this developing field of research and practice. Prof Naomi Cahn, Research Professor in Democracy and Equity, University of Virginia School of Law, USA