Title Never married women / Barbara Levy Simon

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) Series Women in the political economy Women in the political economy. Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; One. Being Marginal: The Single Woman as a Caricature; Two. Being Single; Three. Family; Four. Intimacy; Five. Work; Six. Aging and Retirement: A Study in Continuity; Notes; Index Summary ""[Simon] deals seriously and perceptively with lives almost never granted such respect--those of the 'spinster, ' the 'old maid.' ... There is also a particular ironic energy.""--The Nation""Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, †̃Oh, you would like my Aunt _____! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common.' ""--an interview, August 1984. In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic ref Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index Notes Print version record Subject Single women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Psychology Older women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Psychology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Older women -- Psychology Single women -- Psychology Alleinstehende Frau Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Form Electronic book ISBN 9781439905401 1439905401 0877224978 9780877224976

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