Sociologist E. Kay Trimberger is professor emerita of women's and gender studies at Sonoma State University and is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of Intimate Warriors, she lives in California.
INTRODUCTION
ix
CHAPTER 1 "We Don't Have to Settle": Soul Mates and Singleness
1
(19)
CHAPTER 2 Sex and the Single Woman
20
(33)
CHAPTER 3 Crafting Singular Lives
53
(35)
CHAPTER 4 "Nobody's Wife, Nobody's Mother, Nobody's Lover": Obstacles to Building a Satisfying Single Life
88
(27)
CHAPTER 5 Becoming a Whole Person: Autonomy and Long-Term Singleness
115
(32)
CHAPTER 6 "Will I End Up as a Bag Lady?" Childless Single Women
147
(21)
CHAPTER 7 Without a Dad: Single Women as Mothers
168
(34)
CHAPTER 8 The Cultural Divide and Social Continuum between Single and Married Women
202
(27)
CHAPTER 9 Friendship Networks as a Source of Community and Care
229
(25)
CONCLUSION Challenging the Soul-Mate Ideal
254
(9)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
263
(4)
NOTES
267
(28)
WORKS CITED
295
(15)
INDEX
310
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