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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 clichés, 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.
Table of Content
1 Introduction
2 The linear life-course imperative
3 Singlehood as an unscheduled status passage
4 Facing the horror: becoming an “old maid”
5 On commodification: from wasted time to damaged goods
6 Taking a break
7 Waiting and queuing
8 Time work: keeping up appearances
9 Discussion: another time
Index
About the author
Kinneret Lahad is Senior Lecturer in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program of Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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