Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations.
Given the rising trend of women delaying (or eschewing) marriage and the dearth of studies on their subjective experiences of singleness, this research aims to critically examine how singlehood is commonly understood and to find new ways of thinking and talking about singleness. Drawing on in-depth...
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| author | Tan, Cherlyn Jin Ping. |
| author2 | Zhou Wubiao |
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| description | Given the rising trend of women delaying (or eschewing) marriage and the dearth of studies on their subjective experiences of singleness, this research aims to critically examine how singlehood is commonly understood and to find new ways of thinking and talking about singleness. Drawing on in-depth interview data, I find that while there may be noteworthy variations in the ways that women belonging to different age groups experience singlehood, such one-sided representation of singleness fails to capture the multiple aspects of a woman’s single identity and the plurality of meanings that she attaches to marriage and singlehood. To complete the discussion on contemporary singleness, the paper concludes with an analysis of how single women make sense of their own lives living in a society where marriage continues to be the norm. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/516592019-12-10T11:57:38Z Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. Tan, Cherlyn Jin Ping. Zhou Wubiao School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Given the rising trend of women delaying (or eschewing) marriage and the dearth of studies on their subjective experiences of singleness, this research aims to critically examine how singlehood is commonly understood and to find new ways of thinking and talking about singleness. Drawing on in-depth interview data, I find that while there may be noteworthy variations in the ways that women belonging to different age groups experience singlehood, such one-sided representation of singleness fails to capture the multiple aspects of a woman’s single identity and the plurality of meanings that she attaches to marriage and singlehood. To complete the discussion on contemporary singleness, the paper concludes with an analysis of how single women make sense of their own lives living in a society where marriage continues to be the norm. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-08T03:39:24Z 2013-04-08T03:39:24Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51659 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Tan, Cherlyn Jin Ping. Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title | Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title_full | Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title_fullStr | Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title_short | Taking the single route- the good, the bad and the expectations. |
| title_sort | taking the single route the good the bad and the expectations |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women |
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