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Perfidious and Pernicious Singlism

Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatised and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. By Bella DePaulo, New York, St Martins Griffin, 2006. 325 pp. $14.95 U. S. /$17.25 Can (paperback). ISBN-10: 0-312-34082-6

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Byrne, A. Perfidious and Pernicious Singlism. Sex Roles 60, 760–763 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9539-7

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