Dear Moderator, I would be very grateful if you could circulate the announcement of my new book to the members of the list. I am a feminist sociologist, a media and cultural studies scholar and my book analyzes texts taken from various sources of social media as blogs, web columns, films, television series and ads. Many thanks, Kinneret Dear all, I am delighted to share with you the free, legal and open access for downloading my book: A TABLE FOR ONE A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time published by Manchester University Press. Here is the link and additional details below: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad If you are willing to write a review (for a journal/newspaper/blog), interested in publishing one (or know anyone who would), please let me know. I would be grateful if you could share the announcement with your contacts. Many thanks, Kinneret *A Table for One :A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time* “What are you waiting for?” Stop wasting your time” “You will die alone,” “You will miss the train and stay on your own!” These are some of the questions and warnings that single women hear on an everyday basis. Single women are constantly being asked whether they are ‘’still single,’’ or being bid to get married next or soon. Still, soon, ever-after, waste of time, waiting, how long, when, all these form part of the rich language of time. This book argues that time plays a crucial rule in the discursive formation of female singlehood and that our common understanding of singlehood is dominated by underlying temporal models, premises and concepts. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach and integrating different theoretical realms and perspectives, this book paves way for a new theorization of singlehood and time. Lahad’s unique approach gives us the opportunity to explore and theorize singlehood through temporal concepts such as waiting, wasting time, timeout and accelerated aging. Other temporal categories which are examined throughout this book as age, the life course, linearity and commodification of time enable the fresh consideration of our dominant perceptions about collective clocks, schedules, time tables and the temporal organization of social life in general. By proposing this new analytical direction, this book seeks to rework some of our common conceptions of singlehood, and presents a new theoretical arsenal with which the temporal paradigms which devalue and marginalize single women and women’s subjectivies in general can be understated. Lahad argues that singlehood is sociologically important, because it touches upon some of the pressing issues in social life and raises fundamental questions about how people make sense of their lives and organize their lives with others. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources - including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular clichés, advertisements and references from television and cinema, the author challenges the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time. In this connection, the book lays the ground for a rich, multilayered politicized analysis of solo living and temporality and intends to be a mile stone in both singlehood and time studies. *Kinneret Lahad *is Senior Lecturer in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program of Tel-Aviv University, Israel Kinneret Lahad Ph.D. Senior Lecturer NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program Tel-Aviv University, Israel *The free link to the open access version for A Table for One * *http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad <http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=635870;keyword=lahad>* *https://162.academia.edu/KinneretLahad <https://162.academia.edu/KinneretLahad>* *New and Forthcoming Publications* Just Published! Lahad Kinneret (2017) A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time. Manchester, *Manchester University Press * http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526116369/ Lahad Kinneret and May, Vanessa (2017) “Just one?’ Solo Dining, Gender and Temporal Belonging in Public Spaces”. *Sociological Research Online. * http://www.socresonline.org.uk/22/2/12.html Lahad Kinneret, Sabar, Galia; Sabar- en Yehoshua, Naama (2017) "Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel" *Sociology*, published online first http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038516677220 Yodovich, Neta and Lahad, Kinneret (2017) "I don't think this Woman had anyone in her Life': Loneliness and Singlehood in Six Feet Under" *European Journal of Women's Studies *published online first: http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MyWvu8nBCnqFvhcwSBY4/full