[ecrea] Book Announcement: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time

I am delighted to share with you the free, legal and open access for 
downloading my book: A TABLE FOR ONE A critical reading of singlehood, 
gender and time published by Manchester University Press.

My book analyzes texts taken from various sources of social media as 
blogs, web columns, films, television series and ads.

*A Table for One :A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time*
http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad

“What are you waiting for?” Stop wasting your time” “You will die 
alone,” “You will miss the train and stay on your own!” These are some 
of the questions and warnings that single women hear on an everyday 
basis. Single women are constantly being asked whether they are ‘’still 
single,’’ or being bid to get  married next or soon. Still, soon, 
ever-after, waste of time, waiting, how long, when, all these form part 
of the rich language of time. This book argues that time plays a crucial 
rule in the discursive formation of female singlehood and that our 
common understanding of singlehood is dominated by underlying  temporal 
models, premises and concepts. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach 
and integrating different theoretical realms and perspectives, this book 
paves way for a new theorization of singlehood and time. Lahad’s unique 
approach gives us the opportunity to explore and theorize singlehood 
through temporal concepts such as waiting, wasting time, timeout and 
accelerated aging. Other temporal categories which are examined 
throughout this book as age, the life course, linearity and 
commodification of time enable the fresh  consideration of our dominant 
perceptions about collective clocks, schedules, time tables and the 
temporal organization of social life in general.

By proposing this new analytical direction, this book seeks to rework 
some of our common conceptions of singlehood, and presents a new 
theoretical arsenal with which the temporal paradigms which devalue and 
marginalize single women and women’s subjectivies in general can be 
understated. Lahad argues that singlehood is sociologically important, 
because it touches upon some of the pressing issues in social life and 
raises fundamental questions about how people make sense of their lives 
and organize their lives with others. Drawing on a wide range of 
cultural resources - including web columns, blogs, advice columns, 
popular clichés, advertisements and references from television and 
cinema, the author challenges the meaning-making processes of singlehood 
and time. In this connection, the book lays the ground for a rich, 
multilayered politicized analysis of solo living and temporality and 
intends to be a mile stone in both singlehood and time studies.

*Kinneret Lahad *is Senior Lecturer in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies 
Program of Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Kinneret Lahad
Ph.D. Senior Lecturer
NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program
Tel-Aviv University, Israel


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