{"product_id":"single-arguments-for-the-uncoupled-9780814772553","title":"Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled","description":"\u003cp\u003eNormal\u003cbr\u003e 0 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \/* Style Definitions *\/\u003cbr\u003e table.MsoNormalTable\u003cbr\u003e {mso-style-name: Table Normal;\u003cbr\u003e mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\u003cbr\u003e mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\u003cbr\u003e mso-style-noshow: yes;\u003cbr\u003e mso-style-parent: \u003cbr\u003e mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\u003cbr\u003e mso-para-margin:0in;\u003cbr\u003e mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;\u003cbr\u003e mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\u003cbr\u003e font-size:10.0pt;\u003cbr\u003e font-family: Times New Roman;} \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist\u003cbr\u003eoutside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly\u003cbr\u003ediscouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to\u003cbr\u003ethe social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities\u003cbr\u003etoday. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSingle: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the\u003cbr\u003ecouple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses\u003cbr\u003ean eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and\u003cbr\u003epopular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, \u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and\u003cbr\u003eHannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the\u003cbr\u003eCity, Bridget Jones' Diary, \u003cbr\u003eBeyoncé's \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),\" and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange\u003cbr\u003emoments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and\u003cbr\u003ememoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent\u003cbr\u003erumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and\u003cbr\u003econsideration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Cobb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.04w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814772553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/30\/2012 pg. 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCobb, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMichael Cobb\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGod Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by New York University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183705731187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5604dccb-8807-4faa-ba7e-ca7fee848af6.jpg?v=1655558344","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/single-arguments-for-the-uncoupled-9780814772553","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}