All the single ladies unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation
In 2010, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started a book that she thought would be about the twenty-first-century phenomenon of the American single woman. Over the course of her research, Traister made a startling discovery: historically, when women have had options beyond early heterosexua...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Watch out for that woman : the political and social power of an unmarried nation
- Single women have often made history : unmarried in America
- The sex of the cities : urban life and female independence
- Dangerous as lucifer matches : the friendships of women
- My solitude, my self : single women on their own
- For richer : work, money, and independence
- For poorer : single women and sexism, racism, and poverty
- Sex and the single girls : virginity to promiscuity and beyond
- Horse and carriage : marrying--and not marrying--in the time of singlehood
- Then comes what? and when? : independence and parenthood.
