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The Single Woman and the Fairytale Prince

Jean-Claude Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4049-5
Hardcover
200 pages
October 2008, Polity
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  • FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: IS THERE A MODEL FOR PRIVATE LIFE?
  • 1. LIVING ALONE: A LONG HISTORY
  • Intolerable Celibacy
  • Great Buffalo Woman
  • Celibacy Becomes Legitimate
  • A Maid in Men’s Clothes
  • Introspection
  • The World Turned Upside Down
  • The Nineteenth Century: The Main Trend Begins
  • Grisettes and Phalansteries
  • The Break
  • Dark Times
  • The American Model
  • The Scandinavian Model
  • Crazy Times
  • Uncertain Times
  • 2. A LIFE DIVIDED
  • The ‘Accusing Finger’
  • ‘Weird’
  • Uncomfortable Places
  • The Family: What Can Be Said and What Cannot Be Said
  • The Laughter of Girlfriends
  • Betrayal
  • A Cycle in Three Stages
  • 3. A LIFE SHARED
  • Back to History
  • Premonitory Experiments
  • The Personalization of Feelings
  • A Model for Private Life
  • The Mother-Children Group
  • The Model Undermined
  • 4. PRINCE OR HUSBAND?
  • Facts and Fairies
  • The Prince with a Thousand Faces
  • ‘Like a Love Story’
  • The Prince Settles Down
  • When the Carriage Turns Back into a Pumpkin
  • The Prince Plays Musical Chairs

  • PART TWO: PORTRAIT OF A SINGLE WOMAN
  • 5. INTROSPECTION
  • ‘The Disease of the Infinite’
  • From Laughter to Tears
  • Double Reflexivity
  • From Diaries to Blogs
  • The Mirror and the Clairvoyant
  • 6. AT HOME
  • Fixtures and Fittings
  • Bed
  • Meals
  • Wrapping Up and Regressing
  • Freedom from Domesticity
  • The Lightness of Being
  • 7. THE OUTSIDE WORLD
  • Going Out
  • Other Ties
  • The Family
  • Work
  • Being Oneself in the Outside World
  • 8. MEN
  • Arms
  • Sex
  • Man-Hunters
  • A Gloomy View of Life
  • Married Men
  • 9. THE INTERNET REVOLUTION
  • A Sudden Change of Epoch
  • Love is Just a Click Away
  • The Dark Side of the Web
  • Real Life
  • Men and Women: Sex and Commitment
  • ‘Don’t Give Up’
  • An Experience in its Own Right
  • PART THREE: THE AUTONOMY TRAJECTORY
  • 10. BEING ONESELF
  • The Concept of Trajectory
  • The Irresistible Injunction to be Oneself
  • Oneself
  • Widows
  • Young People
  • Women Who Have Broken off Relationships
  • Predisposing Factors
  • The Impulse to Remain Single
  • The Lesser of Two Evils
  • Two Trajectories, Two Identities
  • 11. WAITING
  • Dinosaurs of Love and Galloping Horses
  • The Ravages of Love
  • For Want of an Alternative
  • Sentenced to Hard Labour
  • Comforting Habits
  • Extreme Isolation
  • Negative Individualism
  • 12. ‘WOMEN CAN DO ANYTHING!
  • Flight as Therapy
  • The Logic of the Shell
  • The Paradox of Appearances
  • Women Can Do Anything
  • Autonomy with Company
  • CONCLUSION
  • EPILOGUE
  • DOSSIER. THE GLOBALIZATION OF SINGLEDOM: THE FIGURES
  • The Irresistible Rise in the Number of One-Person Households
  • Interpreting the Figures
  • Late Marriage
  • A Short World Tour
  • Mail-Order Brides
  • A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY
  • Stages in the Research
  • The Letters
  • Constructing Hypotheses
  • The Informants
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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