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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781476716572 Author(s): Rebecca Traister Format: Paperback Year: 2016 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Dimensions: 212 x 0 x 139 (w x l x h) Pages: 352

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Description: The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is 'an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone-not just the single ladies-who want to gain a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States' (The New York Times Book Review). In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890-1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change-temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are married by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. 'An informative and thought-provoking book for anyone-not just single ladies' (The New York Times Book Review), All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contempora