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Why Are We Scared Of Single Women?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Postwar Return and the 'Psycho' Single Woman

How postwar domestic expectations, film noir and examples like Fatal Attraction created the 'unstable single woman' trope, including altered endings and audience punishment of transgressive women.

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