A Single Woman (play) A Single Woman (play) A Single Woman is a play based on the life of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in the United States Congress. First drafted as a one-woman show by Nevada Shakespeare Company founding Artistic Director, Jeanmarie Simpson, it developed into a "duet performance work" by the time it premiered at the Oats Park Art Center in Fallon, Nevada on February 7, 2004. The play subsequently toured internationally with hundreds of grassroots performances before running at The Culture Project Off-Broadway in the summer of 2005. The play closed at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson, Arizona on November 5,
Sex and the Single Girl Single Girl" (1970). Introduction (New 2003) In the 2003 edition, Brown includes a reintroduction to her book and briefly outlines the static situations and changes that the single woman has faced from the 1960s to 2003. The reviews that followed the publication of "Sex and the Single Girl", "were either highly favourable...or highly negative" and often attacked Brown's writing style and credibility. While several of Brown's concepts were "in common with the second-wave feminist arguments she precedes," other second-wavers such as Betty Friedan "found Brown's message 'obscene and horrible.'" When questioned regarding the criticism the book has received, Brown replied