The Single Woman's Choice as a Zero-Sum Game

Cultural Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 240-266

  Lahad, Kinneret ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

choice; culture; neoliberalism; post feminism; singlehood; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895905457     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.798341     Document Type: Article

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