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Book Review

Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities. By Naomi Braun Rosenthal. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 186 pp. Cloth, $54.50, ISBN 0-7914-5205-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7914-5206-9.)
In the nineteenth century, the never-married woman or spinster was often depicted as a useful relative, and she loomed large in the tales told to encourage young women to stay within the bounds of propriety and heterosexuality. According to Naomi Braun Rosenthal, modern versions of the spinster persisted during much of the twentieth century and then vanished in recent times. Rosenthal seeks to explain the changing influence and demise in popular culture of that iconic female image. . . .
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