Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: situating single lives 1
4. PART I Singles Studies: archives and methods
5. Chapter 1 Searching for Singles: archival approaches for singleness studies and black women’s collections 13
6. Chapter 2 Reclaiming Single Women’s Work: gender, melodrama, and the processes of adaptation in the best of everything 28
7. Chapter 3 Recovering Single Biography: Jane Armstrong tucker, illness, and the single life 48
8. PART II Familiar Figures: representing and reforming the single woman
9. Chapter 4 Becoming Single: gidget “betwixt and between” 67
10. Chapter 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony” the unmarried flapper in literature and on screen 81
11. Chapter 6 Neither Betwixt nor Between: divorced mothers in the united states, 1920–1965 102
12. Chapter 7 Serves One: exploring representations of female singleness in American cookbooks 118
13. PART III Singles at Home domestic labors
14. Chapter 8 Feeling “Like a Queen” later-life single women at home in modern American short fiction 133
15. Chapter 9 “Spinsters’ Rest”? the discomforts of home in british women’s short stories of the 1920s to the 1940s 157
16. Chapter 10 All the Single Nannies: reforming elite domesticity and the cultural imaginary 175
17. Afterword 193
18. Acknowledgments 197
19. Bibliography 199
20. Notes on Contributors 219
21. Index 223