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- Title
"Sex and the Island": Lives of Single Women in Prince Edward Island.
- Authors
Collins, Kristie
- Abstract
This article considers the significance attributed to Prince Edward Island in managing a marginalized single female identity, as presented by accounts of thirty never-married and previously-married Island women, aged twenty-seven through sixty-five. As popular media and social narratives overwhelmingly position contemporary single women against an urban backdrop, the question arises as to whether unmarried Island women feel "marooned" in ways their urban counterparts may not. In accordance with feminist aims to produce research for, rather than about, women's lives, the paper focuses on two themes from fieldwork interviews that were of particular interest to participants. The first theme relates to negotiating female singleness within the Island's family-centered culture, and the second theme presents participants' talk around advantages and disadvantages of living in Prince Edward Island, Canada, as single women. The paper concludes with a summary of other findings from the study and suggestions for future research on female singleness and island locales.
- Subjects
PRINCE Edward Island; SINGLE women; SINGLE people's sexual behavior; FEMININE identity; FEMINISM; ISLAND life
- Publication
Island Studies Journal, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1715-2593
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24043/isj.251