{"product_id":"9781985902510","title":"Single and Psycho","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the single ladies of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFleabag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatal Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1987), and popularized in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingle White Female\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1992) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePromising Young Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingle \u0026amp; Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingle \u0026amp; Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a dynamic addition to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the #MeToo movement and societal expectations of women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Young, Caroline","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48175042986238,"sku":"9781985902510","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Single_and_Psycho.png?v=1778781662","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781985902510","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}