Table for one - by Kinneret Lahad (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Table for one</i>: <i> A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time</i> is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time</em> is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. 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 conventional meaning-making processes of singlehood and time. Lahad's analysis gives us the opportunity to explore and theorize singlehood through varied temporal concepts such as waiting, wasting, timeout, age, the life course, linearity and commodification of time. This unique analytical approach enables the fresh consideration of some of our dominant perceptions about collective clocks, schedules, time tables and the temporal organization of social life in general. 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>What are you waiting for? "Stop wasting your time! You will die alone. Many single women hear these questions and warnings on a day-to-day basis. They are constantly being asked whether they are still single or will get married soon. They are lectured to, questioned, and threatened. It is often the language of time that punctuates many of the conversations a single woman finds herself involved in. Terms like still, ever-after, waste of time are a significant part of the discourse that constitutes the identity of the single woman in western culture. <i>A Table for One</i> is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources--including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular clichés, advertisements, and references from television and cinema--Kinneret Lahad challenges conventional meaning-making processes surrounding the temporality of singlehood, raising fundamental questions about our social life. Lahad's unique approach makes it possible for us to explore and theorize singlehood through temporal categories such as waiting, wasting time, timeout, and accelerated ageing. Other concepts, such as the life course, linearity, and commodification of time, are considered as well. In this way, the book offers a new perspective, in which dominant perceptions concerning collective clocks, schedules, time tables, and the temporal organization of social life in general are radically recast. Proposing this new analytical direction, this book reworks common conceptions of singlehood, and presents a new theoretical arsenal with which the temporal paradigms that devalue and marginalize single women and women's subjectivity can be disarmed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Kinneret Lahad has provided a fascinating discussion on gender, singlehood, and social time. Challenged by temporal metaphors such as biological clock or missing the train, single, urban, upper and middle class women have been portrayed as outliers of heteronormative social norms, where being married is equalled to being normal. Using discourses from popular culture, everyday talk, and new media technologies in the Israeli context, Lahad dissects and challenges the long standing linear life course studies in sociology with a fresh, interesting and innovative perspective on the feminist reading of singlehood. It is a ground-breaking work on the sociology of gender and the sociology of time. Gökce Yurdakul, Humboldt University, co-author of <i>The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging </i> From the outset, the reader is drawn into a highly readable and theoretically engaging study of long-term single women. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, the author provides a detailed examination of a triple discrimination, in terms of age, gender and single status. Focussing upon but not confined to modern Israel, the study takes us through the numerous sites and temporal contexts where these discriminations occur. However, this is not just a study of a particular gendered status but it is also a major contribution to the understanding of everyday time; waiting time, time passing, commodified time. In her final chapter the author opens up possibilities of alternative definitions and practices of singlehood. David Morgan, University of Manchester A welcome contribution to the sociology of time, highlighting the implicit norms and expectations underlying such notions as being "on time" or "late" at the level of the life-course. Furthermore, the book provides a foundation for a sociology of singlehood, treating it as a major phenomenon in its own right rather than just as a transitional stage in anticipation of marriage, recognizing that "remaining" single is often a permanent rather than merely temporary state of being. The asymmetry between women's lack of need to account for their decision to get married and need to justify why they have thus far not done so is the book's most evocative finding. Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kinneret Lahad is Senior Lecturer in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program of Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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