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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It's an interesting experience to read two consecutive books on the same basic topic, one written by an academic and the other by a magazine writer. This one is the latter. The pluses were a more accessible, breezy writing style and less thesis-proving repetition. However, a lot of details didn't quite hold up to further research, which is why I finally knocked it down from 4 stars to 3. More definitions would have also helped, especially in terms of pharmaceuticals. A remarkable number of context-vague references to drugs I'd never heard of. Finally, many quotes didn't show up in the (jumbled) bibliography, and many were interesting enough that I would have liked to have read more of the original. Which is how I ended up with this book in the first place. I just have to assume the part about how by the 1970s, 'being single, like being openly gay' was finally socially acceptable was a major typo. (  ) kristenn | Oct 7, 2009 |  This is a breezy, easy to read social history of single women. While definitely written from a feminist angle, it's interesting to see how hard the idea that all women should be married with children dies. (  ) etxgardener | Jul 28, 2009 | This book dispels the notion that single working women are some new phenomenon that the Right ought to fight. Considering the lack of hard statistics and documentation, the author has done a thorough job of researching and writing this book. heina | Dec 28, 2007 | An good non-fic book that tells the story of the American woman through the history of the country. Entertaining, well-written and informative. ( ) Bridge714 | Feb 11, 2007 | allthingsjennifer | Jan 9, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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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 light on the stereotypes that have stigmatized single women and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.
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