| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single. Ed. by Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. viii, 273 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4210-2.)

On the whole, it is encouraging to see from this interdisciplinary collection of essays that the historical subject of single women is becoming more complex. Once, it was no subject at all, then it acquired some standing as the study of what was once called spinsters, and now the historical study of single women has proliferated. This book, for example, arises from a year-long seminar in 2003–2004 at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, whose Web page now offers a bibliography on works that deal with this subject (http://www .scc.rutgers.edu/rcha) and links to related resources, notably the Scholars of Single Women Network (http://medusanet.ca/singlewomen/resources/bib_main.htm).

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