embodied in the narrative of the 'old maid's' lonely death. The study contributes to a complex
understanding of single women and the resignification of emotions conventionally ascribed
to this category. By bridging the gap between two rarely linked bodies of knowledge–
singlehood and the sociology of emotions–the authors do not ask what loneliness is, but,
following Sara Ahmed's work, rather what loneliness does. To this end, this article employs a …