Bachelor Girl

Bachelor Girl

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Author :Betsy Israel

Condition : Used-LikeNew

Binding : Soft-Back-Noval

Pages : 294

Publisher : Aurum Press

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

Victorian pundits recommended that they be rounded up and shipped overseas.uring the Great Depression they were condemned as job-stealers andome-wreckers. Single women have long had an uneasy relationship with theest of society. In this witty, thoughtful and irresistibly engaging book,etsy Israel chronicles the ever-changing life of the single woman over theast 150 years. Drawing extensively on primary sources, including privateournals, newspaper stories, magazine articles, advertisements, films andelevision programmes, Bachelor Girl paints an extraordinarily vivid portraitf single women - and the way they were perceived - from the flappers of theoaring Twenties to the working women of the War years to the 'ballbreaking'areer women of the 1980s. The story is brought right up-to-date in a finalhapter on modern single icons such as Bridget Jones, Ally McBeal and the Sexnd the City gang, who reflect a new generation of single women unafraid toive life on their own terms.

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Author :Betsy Israel

Condition : Used-LikeNew

Binding : Soft-Back-Noval

Pages : 294

Publisher : Aurum Press

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

Victorian pundits recommended that they be rounded up and shipped overseas.uring the Great Depression they were condemned as job-stealers andome-wreckers. Single women have long had an uneasy relationship with theest of society. In this witty, thoughtful and irresistibly engaging book,etsy Israel chronicles the ever-changing life of the single woman over theast 150 years. Drawing extensively on primary sources, including privateournals, newspaper stories, magazine articles, advertisements, films andelevision programmes, Bachelor Girl paints an extraordinarily vivid portraitf single women - and the way they were perceived - from the flappers of theoaring Twenties to the working women of the War years to the 'ballbreaking'areer women of the 1980s. The story is brought right up-to-date in a finalhapter on modern single icons such as Bridget Jones, Ally McBeal and the Sexnd the City gang, who reflect a new generation of single women unafraid toive life on their own terms.