Cover	1
	Half-Title	2
	Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Dedication	6
	Contents	8
	Acknowledgements	9
	Introduction	10
	1 Theorizing Women’s Singleness: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Popular Culture	15
	2 From the Second-wave to Postfeminism: Single Women in the Mediasphere	42
	3 Spinsters and Singletons: Bridget Jones’s Diary and its Cultural Reverberations	81
	4 Desperate and Dateless TV: Making Over the Single Woman	114
	5 Self-Help and the Single Girl: From Salvation to Validation	151
	6 Blogging Solo: Women Refiguring Singleness	188
	Notes	219
	References	229
	Index	248