Non-Western
Here is a selection of published sources
(including some fiction) on single women, focused
on regions outside Europe and North America.
Additions are greatly appreciated - please e-mail
the compiler at arachne [at] medusanet.ca
and I'll include them.
back
to main bibliography page
Allman, Jean. "Rounding up Spinsters: Gender Chaos
and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante." Journal
of African History 37, no. 2 (1996): 195-214.
B*a*la, Vidy a. Apar*Ajit*Ańce Ni*H*Sv*Asa.
Pu*ne: Dil*ipar*aja Prak*a*sana, 1994.
Cornell, Laurel L. "Why Are There No Spinsters in
Japan?" Journal of Family History 9, no.
4 (1984): 326-339.
Dan Shen Nü Xing Du Bai. Beijing: Zhongguo
she hui ke xue chu ban she, 1997.
Gulick, Sidney Lewis. A Sociological Experiment
among Factory Girls. A Report of the Matsuyama Factory
Girls' Home [1907]. [Microfilm]. Woodbridge,
Conn., Research Publications, [1977] (History of women,
reel 943, no. 8590), 1907.
Gupta, G. S. "The Study of Adjustment among Unmarried
Hindu and Muslim Females." Indian Psychological
Review 13 (1976): 4-8.
Jansen, Willy. Women without Men: Gender and
Marginality in an Algerian Town. Leiden: Brill,
1987.
Jethani, Urmila. Single Women. [India]
Rawat Publications, 1994.
Johnson, R. W., and J. DaVanzo. "Economic and Cultural
Influences on the Decision to Leave Home in Peninsular
Malaysia." Demography 35 (1998): 97-114.
Krishnakumari, N. S. Status of Single Women
in India: A Study of Spinsters, Widows, and Divorcees.
New Delhi: Uppal Pub. House, 1987.
Kuklo, Cezary. Kobieta Samotna W Spo±Eczeânstwie
Miejskim U Schy±Ku Rzeczypospolitej Szlacheckiej:
Studium Demograficzno-Spo±Eczne. Bia±ystok: Wydawn.
Uniwersytetu w Bia±ymstoku, 1998.
Leong, Liew Geok. Women without Men. Singapore:
Times Books International, 2000.
Neshla and Women's Studies Research Centre. Single
Women in Indian Perspective. Kurukshetra: Nirmal
Book Agency, 1994.
Parsipur, Shahrnush. Women without Men: A Novella.
Translated by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Pavâon, Alfredo. El Presente Insoportable: Soliloquio
De La Solterona : Lectura Y Anâalisis a Obras De Sergio
Galindo, Rosario Castellanos, Juan Vicente Melo, Aline
Pettersson E Inâes Arredondo. Xalapa, Veracruz,
Mâexico: Centro de Investigaciones Lingčuâistico-Literarias
Instituto de Investigaciones Humanâisticas Universidad
Veracruzana, 1990.
Phillimore, Peter. "Unmarried Women of the Dhaula
Dhar: Celibacy and Social Control in Northwest India."
Journal of Anthropological Research 47, no.
3 (1991): 331-350.
Rathaur, Manjula. Unmarried Working Women, Marriage,
and Career: A Study of University and College Teachers
of Varanasi. New Delhi: Radiant Publishers, 1990.
Sa'ar, Amalia. "Many ways of becoming a woman." Ethnology 23, no.1 (2004):1-18. [sexuality of unmarried Palestinian women]
Schuler, Sidney. The Other Side of Polyandry:
Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal
Himalayas. Boulder: Westview Presss, 1987.
Shiozawa, Miyoko, and Tomiko Shimada. Hitorigurashi
No Sengoshi: Sench*U Sesai No Fujintachi. Tokyo:
Iwanami Shoten, 1975.
Singh, Sunny. Single in the City: A Handbook
for the Independent Woman. Penguin India, 2001.
top
