Outputs (2)

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism (2021)
Book
Stanley, P. (2021). An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205357

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm – fatness, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, withi... Read More about An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism.

A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Stanley, P. (2021, September). A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times. Paper presented at 6th Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, Australia and online

In these pandemic times there are couple-bubbles and household bubbles and social bubbles. And then there is me, uncoupled, unchilded, in a bubble of one. (Four if you count the cats.) In early modern Scotland, the Witchcraft Act (1563) held my t... Read More about A bubble of one: Reflections on witches and spinsterhood in pandemic times.