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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting -- 3. Past -- 4. Time -- 5. Family -- 6. Work -- 7. Space -- 8. Migration -- 9. Epilogue: Future -- Note on Demographic Sources -- Note on Participatory Interviews -- Appendix A: "What Is a Peasant?" -- Appendix B: Monthly Distribution of Deaths by Age Group -- Appendix C: Age at First Marriage by Age Cohort by Decade -- Appendix D: Classification of Occupations -- Notes -- Index

Despite some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are rarely considered lonely, aberrant, or pitiable. Rather, they are seen as having elected to be "footloose and fancy free." Single women, however, do not enjoy such an enviable reputation. Instead, over the past two centuries, they have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable--attitudes that result in part from the longstanding belief that a single woman would not have chosen her life. This collection of eleven original essays attempts to correct that bias by present