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 to seek professional advancement...to use gender, and to varying degrees, sexuality for their own gain." Berebitsky also contrasts "Sex and the Single Girl" with "The Executive Secretary", a guidebook published in 1959 by Marilyn Burke, secretary to Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie, that cautions against demonstrations of female sexuality in the workforce. Scanlon suggests that "Sex and the City" is "the most direct descendent of the sexual politics Helen Gurley Brown introduced in "Sex and the Single Girl"" and Jane Gerhard argues that ""Sex and the City" pays direct homage" to "Sex and the Single Girl", as both present the