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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Israel, Betsy
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0380976498
- ISBN 13
- 9780380976492
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed To Dear Karen, with love by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Two tiny indentations on the lower board edges. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'Grown-up Fast: A True Story of Teenage Life in Suburban America' and 'The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One-to Four-Year-Old'. Signed copies are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Women's Studies Journalist Betsy Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women -- and how they have been perceived -- throughout the decades using primary sources, including private journals, newspapers, and other materials from popular media. From the nineteenth-century spinsters of New England to the Bowery girls of New York City, to the career girls of the 1950s and 1960s, single women have fought to find, and feel comfortable in, that room of their own. One need only look at Bridget Jones and the Sex and the City gang to see that single women still maintain an uneasy relationship with the rest of society -- and yet radiate glamour and mystery.Bachelor Girl shines a light on the stereotypes that have stigmatized single women and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.
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- Title
- Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Israel, Betsy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0380976498
- ISBN 13
- 9780380976492
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 304
- LCCN
- 2002066011
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