Single and Psycho
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Single and Psycho

How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

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eBook - ePub

Single and Psycho

How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

About this book

From the single ladies of BeyoncĂ© and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series Fleabag (2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, the stereotype of the damaged single woman has long pervaded music, books, television, and Hollywood movies. Spinster tropes, witch burnings, and nineteenth-century diagnoses of hysteria have reflected and continue to inform the stories told about society's singletons, most notoriously in the original bunny boiler, Fatal Attraction (1987), and popularized in Single White Female (1992) and Promising Young Woman (2020).

In Single & Psycho, author Caroline Young explores how broader social trends such as the antifeminist backlash of the 1980s, contemporary debates about tradwives and childless cat ladies, and the absence of single women of color on-screen shape the way women are (mis)perceived and (mis)treated. Young weaves the history of a stereotype with her own fight against stigma as a single woman as well as her struggles with infertility, infusing incisive analysis with personal experience in this approachable, savvy exposé of one of mainstream media's most enduring clichés.

Single & Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman is a dynamic addition to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the #MeToo movement and societal expectations of women.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. “I’m Not Going to Be Ignored”: The Creation of the Bunny Boiler
  8. Chapter 2. The Madwoman in the Attic
  9. Chapter 3. Bachelor Girls
  10. Chapter 4. The Good Wife and the Bad Girl
  11. Chapter 5. 5 a.m. Breakfasts on Fifth Avenue and a Countercultural Shake-Up
  12. Chapter 6. The 1970s: Feminism, New Hollywood, and Blaxploitation
  13. Chapter 7. Is It Really Free Love?
  14. Chapter 8. From Feminism to Fighting for the Nuclear Family
  15. Chapter 9. Burnout, Biological Clocks, and Boiling Rabbits: The Career Woman’s Despair
  16. Chapter 10. Baby Booms and Working Girls
  17. Chapter 11. Bitches from Hell
  18. Chapter 12. Sex and Fear: The Sharp Edge of the Erotic Thriller
  19. Chapter 13. The Threat Is inside the House
  20. Chapter 14. The Rise of the Singleton
  21. Chapter 15. Playboy Bunnies, Slut-Shaming, and the Aughts’ Double Standards
  22. Chapter 16. Alcoholic, Divorced, and Highly Anxious
  23. Chapter 17. Fleabag, Fourth-Wave Feminism, and the Destructive Single Woman
  24. Chapter 18. “I’ll Show You Crazy”
  25. Chapter 19. Tradwives and Childless Cat Ladies
  26. Conclusion
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Notes
  29. Index