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| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9781526117274 |
| Book Subtitle | A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender And Time |
| Book Description | Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources - including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular cliches, advertisements and references from television and cinema, the author challenges the conventional meaning-making processes of singlehood and time. Lahad's analysis gives us the opportunity to explore and theorize singlehood through varied temporal concepts such as waiting, wasting, timeout, age, the life course, linearity and commodification of time. This unique analytical approach enables the fresh consideration of some of our dominant perceptions about collective clocks, schedules, time tables and the temporal organization of social life in general. |
| Editorial Review | Kinneret Lahad has provided a fascinating discussion on gender, singlehood, and social time. Challenged by temporal metaphors such as "biological clock" or "missing the train", single , urban, upper and middle class women have been portrayed as outliers of heteronormative social norms, where being married is equalled to being "normal." Using discourses from popular culture, everyday talk, and new media technologies in the Israeli context, Lahad dissects and challenges the long standing linear life course studies in sociology with a fresh, interesting and innovative perspective on the feminist reading of singlehood. It is a ground-breaking work on the sociology of gender and the sociology of time. Goekce Yurdakul, Humboldt University, co-author of The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging |
| About the Author | Kinneret Lahad is Senior Lecturer in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program of Tel-Aviv University. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Kinneret Lahad |
| Publication Date | 19 Nov 2019 |
| Number of Pages | 168 |
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