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Read 1,744 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started... All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.
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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 (1890–19 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. . more. Get A Copy. Friend Reviews. Reader Q&A. Erin Reilly-Sanders I don't know that the nation" part is all that important to the book- it's almost an arbitrary limiter to a huge field of research.…more I don't know that the "nation" part is all that important to the book- it's almost an arbitrary limiter to a huge field of research.(less) Lucy Mitchell It could be used as a text book. So much information. I feel like I should be taking notes. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. This is a tough review to write. The book is really great, there is no question. But it’s nothing completely groundbreaking, like I have to admit I wanted it to be when I cracked it open. Perhaps that is because the author, Rebecca Traister, is just describing my life in a way that, I suppose people who aren’t single in their late 20s, cannot relate to. It seems obvious. We are independent. We have close female friends. We have complicated sex lives. Some of us date, some of us don’t. We work ha This is a tough review to write. The book is really great, there is no question. But it’s nothing completely groundbreaking, like I have to admit I wanted it to be when I cracked it open. Perhaps that is because the author, Rebecca Traister, is just describing my life in a way that, I suppose people who aren’t single in their late 20s, cannot relate to. It seems obvious. We are independent. We have close female friends. We have complicated sex lives. Some of us date, some of us don’t. We work hard. We contemplate having children, or not having children. Some of us want to get married, some of us don’t. I dunno, maybe I’m simplifying this too much, but this was my takeaway after reading the conclusion. The book is certainly readable, and she talks to very interesting women, but I would have appreciated more analysis rather than statistics and word-of-mouth testimonials. I did like how she covered all bases though, and has extremely correct feminist views about the subject. It’s tough out there for us educated women who don’t have to marry to survive. But it’s also impossible to generalize the rise of this independent nation. Maybe that is my problem - I much prefer novels about one woman’s story, one life story, that explores specific themes that are universal, instead of a fact-based checklist of how women today live in America. Again, not sure how I feel about this. Perhaps I need to digest it a bit more. I am very happy that the issues surrounding single women are becoming prominent and important to listen to, but I wished for a little bit more than this. It’s a great starting manual, but I am wary about the simplistic answers the book sometimes veers into. . more. Before picking this book up, I read a lot of articles about it and interviews with the author. When perusing the comments sections of these articles, the criticisms that I've read of unmarried young women tend to fall into one of three camps: they are selfish leaches (the assumption here being that they're all single mothers on welfare), they're narcissistic and immature, or they’re man-hating feminists out to destroy the fabric of society. These assumptions about single women are so frustrating Before picking this book up, I read a lot of articles about it and interviews with the author. When perusing the comments sections of these articles, the criticisms that I've read of unmarried young women tend to fall into one of three camps: they are selfish leaches (the assumption here being that they're all single mothers on welfare), they're narcissistic and immature, or they’re man-hating feminists out to destroy the fabric of society. These assumptions about single women are so frustrating and often off-the-mark, yet they remain deeply ingrained in many parts of our culture. But it cannot be denied that more women over the age of 18 are choosing to delay marriage or to forgo it entirely than ever before. Traister's goal here is to examine the reasons for this trend, as well as how the trend affects not just women – economically, socially, psychologically – but also men and society as a whole. It's fascinating, well-researched, and broad. It was so wonderfully validating to me, even (and maybe especially) as a 31 year-old woman who only recently got married. I seriously can't remember the last time that I marked up a book so much. It's the book I was looking for last year when I picked up Spinster. This is a topic that I have lots of capital-F Feelings about. I’ve talked about this around here before, but the best advice I’ve ever received in my life was when my mother told me to wait until I was 30 to get married. She told me to live on my own first and make sure I did the things I wanted to do before settling down. I didn’t consciously decide to wait until I was 30, life just kind of worked out that way, but it was absolutely the right thing for me and I am so glad it worked out that way. Until I was 25, I thought I was going to marry the guy I’d been dating since high school. We broke up for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I moved away for grad school and it gradually became obvious that it would not be easy to bring our visions for our lives together in a way that made sense. I was also realizing that I wasn’t experiencing life as fully as I wanted to because I was trying to make that relationship work. I’d never been in another relationship, I was just taking for granted that this one was the right one for me. It didn’t make sense to sacrifice so much for something I was just assuming was right.
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Read 1,744 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started... All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.
Click here for all the single ladies book rebecca traister
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 (1890–19 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. . more. Get A Copy. Friend Reviews. Reader Q&A. Erin Reilly-Sanders I don't know that the nation" part is all that important to the book- it's almost an arbitrary limiter to a huge field of research.…more I don't know that the "nation" part is all that important to the book- it's almost an arbitrary limiter to a huge field of research.(less) Lucy Mitchell It could be used as a text book. So much information. I feel like I should be taking notes. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. This is a tough review to write. The book is really great, there is no question. But it’s nothing completely groundbreaking, like I have to admit I wanted it to be when I cracked it open. Perhaps that is because the author, Rebecca Traister, is just describing my life in a way that, I suppose people who aren’t single in their late 20s, cannot relate to. It seems obvious. We are independent. We have close female friends. We have complicated sex lives. Some of us date, some of us don’t. We work ha This is a tough review to write. The book is really great, there is no question. But it’s nothing completely groundbreaking, like I have to admit I wanted it to be when I cracked it open. Perhaps that is because the author, Rebecca Traister, is just describing my life in a way that, I suppose people who aren’t single in their late 20s, cannot relate to. It seems obvious. We are independent. We have close female friends. We have complicated sex lives. Some of us date, some of us don’t. We work hard. We contemplate having children, or not having children. Some of us want to get married, some of us don’t. I dunno, maybe I’m simplifying this too much, but this was my takeaway after reading the conclusion. The book is certainly readable, and she talks to very interesting women, but I would have appreciated more analysis rather than statistics and word-of-mouth testimonials. I did like how she covered all bases though, and has extremely correct feminist views about the subject. It’s tough out there for us educated women who don’t have to marry to survive. But it’s also impossible to generalize the rise of this independent nation. Maybe that is my problem - I much prefer novels about one woman’s story, one life story, that explores specific themes that are universal, instead of a fact-based checklist of how women today live in America. Again, not sure how I feel about this. Perhaps I need to digest it a bit more. I am very happy that the issues surrounding single women are becoming prominent and important to listen to, but I wished for a little bit more than this. It’s a great starting manual, but I am wary about the simplistic answers the book sometimes veers into. . more. Before picking this book up, I read a lot of articles about it and interviews with the author. When perusing the comments sections of these articles, the criticisms that I've read of unmarried young women tend to fall into one of three camps: they are selfish leaches (the assumption here being that they're all single mothers on welfare), they're narcissistic and immature, or they’re man-hating feminists out to destroy the fabric of society. These assumptions about single women are so frustrating Before picking this book up, I read a lot of articles about it and interviews with the author. When perusing the comments sections of these articles, the criticisms that I've read of unmarried young women tend to fall into one of three camps: they are selfish leaches (the assumption here being that they're all single mothers on welfare), they're narcissistic and immature, or they’re man-hating feminists out to destroy the fabric of society. These assumptions about single women are so frustrating and often off-the-mark, yet they remain deeply ingrained in many parts of our culture. But it cannot be denied that more women over the age of 18 are choosing to delay marriage or to forgo it entirely than ever before. Traister's goal here is to examine the reasons for this trend, as well as how the trend affects not just women – economically, socially, psychologically – but also men and society as a whole. It's fascinating, well-researched, and broad. It was so wonderfully validating to me, even (and maybe especially) as a 31 year-old woman who only recently got married. I seriously can't remember the last time that I marked up a book so much. It's the book I was looking for last year when I picked up Spinster. This is a topic that I have lots of capital-F Feelings about. I’ve talked about this around here before, but the best advice I’ve ever received in my life was when my mother told me to wait until I was 30 to get married. She told me to live on my own first and make sure I did the things I wanted to do before settling down. I didn’t consciously decide to wait until I was 30, life just kind of worked out that way, but it was absolutely the right thing for me and I am so glad it worked out that way. Until I was 25, I thought I was going to marry the guy I’d been dating since high school. We broke up for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I moved away for grad school and it gradually became obvious that it would not be easy to bring our visions for our lives together in a way that made sense. I was also realizing that I wasn’t experiencing life as fully as I wanted to because I was trying to make that relationship work. I’d never been in another relationship, I was just taking for granted that this one was the right one for me. It didn’t make sense to sacrifice so much for something I was just assuming was right.
All the single ladies rebecca
All the single ladies book rebecca traister
All the single ladies traister
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