The privileging of marriage and long-term partnerships contributes to the marginalization of
single women. This article explores the ways in which women defined as single work with�…

This article presents a discursive analysis of interview material in which single women reflect
on their relationships and reasons for being single. Despite changing meanings of�…

The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social
phenomena of western society. Most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a�…

This paper discusses a speaker's narrative and discursive work to counter the negative
associations of an identity as a single woman. An analysis of extracts from one interview�…

Despite increased acknowledgement of gender equality as a social good, there are some
areas where the practice of women's autonomy is apparently inconsistent with the normative�…

Demographic trends in recent decades such as the delay and decline in marriage and
increase in divorce have meant more men and women experiencing periods of singleness�…

This article examines two contrasting interviews—with an Anglo and a Puerto Rican woman—
and concludes that gender congruence does not help an Anglo interviewer make sense of�…

Feminist criticism with a poststructuralist perspective, as outlined by Chris Weedon (1987),
takes language as the site of the cultural production of gender identity: subjectivity is�…

A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing
two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of�…

This paper considers two aspects of feminist orthodoxy regarding ethics and reflexivity
during data analysis in qualitative research. These methodological issues surfaced in an�…