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008			120113s2012 nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780814790496
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020			_z9780814772546 (hardback)
020			_z9780814772553 (pb)
020			_z9780814772560 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aHQ800 _b.C73 2012
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100	1		_aCobb, Michael L.
245	1	0	_aSingle _h[electronic resource] : _barguments for the uncoupled / _cMichael Cobb.
260			_aNew York : _bNYU Press, _c2012. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (239 p.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a" Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} 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, Beyonce;'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. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aSingle people.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814790496/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c35355 _d35355