Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled (Sexual Cultures) by Michael Cobb
By Michael Cobb
What unmarried individual hasn't suffered? Everyone, it kind of feels, has to be (or needs to are looking to be) in a pair. To exist open air of the couple is to imagine an delinquent place that's ruthlessly discouraged simply because being in a pair is the way in which most folks bind themselves to the social. Singles may perhaps simply be the one so much reviled sexual minorities today.
Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple shape, and the way that supremacy blocks our realizing of the only. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness because it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and pop culture items 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 girls (Put a hoop On It),” and HBO's Big Love. inside of those flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, unusual moments in movie and video, work made within the barren region, bits of track, and memoirs of mountaineering in nationwide parks, Cobb deals an encouraged, eloquent rumination at the unmarried, that is certain to spark dialog and consideration.
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