Zoe Strimpel

Seeking Love in Modern Britain (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single'

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking Love in Modern Britain charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how - amid a period of unprecedented sexual and social change - 'the single' became a key unisex identity and lifestyle.

From around 1970, a growing, cottage-style matchmaking industry in Britain was offering the romantically solo a choice between computer dating firms, such as Dateline or Compudate, introduction agencies and the lonely hearts pages of Private Eye, Time Out and others. Zoe Strimpel reveals how this rapidly expanding landscape of services was catering to a new breed of single people, and how - by the late 1990s - singleness had become the culturally mainstream, wholly expected part of the romantic life cycle that it is today.

Refuting the widespread idea that the Internet invented modern dating, this book uses an eclectic and engaging range of first-person accounts and snapshots from the time to show that the story of contemporary romance, mediated courtship and singleness began in a time long before Tinder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350095922
• Artikelnr.: 58496834

Autorenporträt

Zoe Strimpel is Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. She is a flagship columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, having previously worked as a full-time writer for The Times from 2004 to 2008 and Lifestyle Editor for City AM from 2008 to 2012. She also wrote a dating column for the now defunct thelondonpaper, which was read by one million people per week, from 2006 to 2008. Dr Strimpel is the author of What the Hell Is He Thinking? All the Questions You Ever Asked About Men Answered (2010) and The Man Diet: One Woman's Quest to End Bad Romance (2012). She has regularly appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC Sunday Morning Live, Sky News, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live, both as a historian of gender and relationships and to discuss responses to the #metoo campaign against sexual harassment.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
1. Live Alone and Like It? Singleness in Late 20th-Century Britain
2. The Matchmaking Industry, 1970-2000
3. Representations of the Dating Industry
4. Mediated Daters and the Experience of Matchmaking
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index