By Jill Reynolds
ISBN-10: 0415405688
ISBN-13: 9780415405683
The rise in numbers of unmarried humans has been defined as one of many maximum social phenomena of western society. most girls will spend classes in their lives by myself, with out a dedicated associate courting. but there's nonetheless a level of social stigma hooked up to this prestige. unmarried ladies are a vital workforce for learn on the subject of perceived adjustments in relatives existence and relationships. This publication presents a brand new knowing of what's usually taken-for-granted – girl unmarried id. In an exam of extracts from her interviews with ladies elderly 30 to 60 years and dwelling by myself, Jill Reynolds explores how girls take care of this almost certainly stigmatized id. She specializes in identification and self-representation via attention of discourse and the conversational strikes made by way of the individuals. Her research highlights that the culturally on hand and commonplace assets for realizing singleness are hugely polarized. unmarried ladies weave their approach throughout the severe contrasts of a denigrated or an empowered identification. therefore, whereas such a lot members provide very confident bills, additionally they be aware of common social expectancies that good fortune in existence consists of a long term devoted courting. This booklet makes a major contribution to the certainty of the lives of unmarried girls and represents a problem to the massive literature on gender and kinfolk existence which has inadequately theorized singleness. it will likely be of significant curiosity to teachers and scholars in social psychology, sociology, social paintings and social coverage. it is going to even be of specific curiosity to scholars of gender stories, qualitative study, narrative reports, dialog research and discourse research.
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What power relations structure their experience of singleness? How do women work rhetorically with stigmatized aspects of singleness? What kind of collective and personal strategies are there to help women either to ®t neatly into the cultural slots for singleness or to put up some resistance to them? More detailed questions drove the analysis for particular data chapters. 23 2 CONTRASTING MODELS OF A SINGLE IDENTITY Gone now the years of my halcyon twenties And thirties are looming alarming ahead And family members have started their sighing Indulgently at me and shaking their heads 'Cause here I am, the family maiden aunt Oh isn't-it-sad, marriage-hopes-are-fading aunt The lonely-future-expectation-laden aunt I wonder what on earth's to become of me now?
In order to describe their experience of life alone, what narrative traditions can and do women draw on? Are there some commonly accepted ways of parcelling up and accounting for experience, or are women ®nding new ways of describing their lives? 39 CONTRASTING MODELS OF A SINGLE IDENTITY Developing an approach to single identity as discursively constructed Each of the different theoretical models of identity that appear in the empirical social science literature on singleness I ®nd in some way de®cient in giving a proper account of the self that works well in thinking about singleness.
The process of living in these slots and living with these possibilities (working with them, complying, resisting and transforming them) becomes a personal identity project for the individual single woman. As Giddens (2005) observes, the self is a re¯exive project that involves creating a story about the self. However, there are limitations to what kind of self can be narrated within a particular cultural context. In developing narratives and accounts of themselves, and in making sense of their lives and life choices, people work up the discursive resources available as identity.
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