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Single Paperback - 2012

by Cobb, Michael,

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  • Title Single
  • Author Cobb, Michael,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 239
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2012-07-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18389508
  • ISBN 9780814772553 / 0814772552
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 5.04 x 0.81 in (22.89 x 12.80 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Single people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011052259
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.815
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

A radical defense of a solitary life

What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today.

Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the
couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyonc's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent
rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 04/30/2012, Page 124

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