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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

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eng

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Main title

All the single ladies

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936339818

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Rebecca Traister

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unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation

Summary

In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started this, a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism, 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

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