Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled (Sexual Cultures, 45)
Language: English
Published by NYU Press, 2012
Series: Book 22 of 59 - Sexual Cultures
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- Title
- Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled (Sexual Cultures, 45)
- Author
- Cobb, Michael
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0814772552
- ISBN 13
- 9780814772553
- Item weight
- 13 ounces
- Dimensions
- 80x9x144
- Series
- Book 22 of 59: Sexual Cultures
A radical defense of a solitary life
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, Beyoncé'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.
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