Bibliograph

All the single ladies, Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, Rebecca Traister

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All the single ladies, Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, Rebecca Traister

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All the single ladies

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

934512455

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Traister

Sub title

Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Summary

A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America, this "singularly triumphant work ( -- "All the Single Ladies 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 wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a "dramatic reversal. "All the Single Ladies When Everything Changed

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