Discrimination against unmarried adults has been well documented with respect to such issues as taxes, conditions of employment, and political rhetoric. Less well understood is discrimination affecting medical decisions that may be — literally — a matter of life or death. Since the 1980s, dozens of studies[1] in peer-reviewed medical journals have demonstrated that […]
Singlehood, academic work and pandemic life (by Ea Høg Utoft)
Published research article Utoft, E. H. (2020). ‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?. Gender, Work & Organization, 27(5), 778-787. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12478 In April 2020, the journal Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) published a call, expressing a wish to document living and working through the pandemic, and articles quickly began to emerge. I […]
Who would love me like this? – Fat Single Women and the Normativity of the Couple in Makeover TV Shows (by Susanne Ritter)
The body – especially the closely scrutinized female body – marks the individual as more orless (in)appropriate for the society it exists in. Fatness is commonly seen as being excludedfrom and incompatible with norms of femininity (Taylor 2021) and it is thus especiallystigmatizing for women. Similarly, especially for women, it can be stigmatizing to be […]
The Research Network of Singlehood Studies (SinglehoodS)
The number of people living without a partner is growing in Finland, in Europe, and globally. Despite this shift, there is a paucity of research on singlehood. Even though the increase in the amount of singles is reshaping institutions and producing alternative intimacies, the demographic change has not disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm […]