Kelly Watson

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Kelly Watson is an Assistant Professor of History and an affiliate member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Avila University in Kansas City, MO. Her book Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World was released by NYU Press as a part of the Early American Places series in 2015. The paperback was released in 2017. Her current research examines the cultural power of celibacy and singleness in colonial America.

Feminism

The Enigmatic Spinster

By Kelly Watson • October 12, 2017

Judging from the number of books, blogs, news articles and interviews focused on the lives of single women, it seems that the “spinster” is making a resurgence. For example, Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation and Kate Bolick’s Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own received… Read more →