"She lived happily ever after, without husband or children.” "Why do stories never end like this?
This is a deep, incarnate, and humorous personal essay in which Marie Kock blends storytelling, anecdotes, archives and cultural references with her own sociological and philosophical findings, to offer us a fresh perspective on the archetypal spinster.
Far from the frightful image conjured up by spinsters and the stigma they bear, today's spinsters could play a role in opening up a new path to emancipation if we learned to listen to them...
Marie Kock is a journalist and graduate of the Lille School of Journalism. She is the author of Yoga, une histoire-monde, published by La Découverte in 2019. Spinster Life, how about it? is her second book.