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

Zusatztext PRAISE FOR REBECCA TRAISTER "Visionary." -- The New York Times Book Review "One of the most powerful voices in a new generation of American feminist writers." --Walter Russell Mead! Foreign Affairs "The most brilliant voice on feminism in this country." --Anne Lamott! author of Bird by Bird "A clear-eyed! whip-smart observer of the political scene." --Daphne Merkin! author of The Fame Lunches "Brilliant." --Maureen Corrigan! NPR's Fresh Air "Clever! caustic! [and] wickedly funny." --Slate.com "The heir to the tradition of Mary McCarthy and Joan Didion." --Eric Alterman! author of The Cause "Provocative and insightful." --Curtis Sittenfeld! author of American Wife Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Traister is writer at large for  New York magazine and a contributing editor at  Elle . A National Magazine Award finalist! she has written about women in politics! media! and entertainment from a feminist perspective for  The New Republic  and  Salon  and has also contributed to  The Nation !  The New York Observer !  The New York Times !  The Washington Post !  Vogue! Glamour  and  Marie Claire . Traister’s first book! Big Girls Don’t Cry!  about women and the 2008 election! was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. She lives in New York with her family.  Zusammenfassung * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * 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 contemporary American life and how we got here! through the lens of the unmarried American woman. Covering class! race! sexual orientation! and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures! “we’re better off reading Rebecca Traister on women! politics! and America than pretty much anyone else” ( The Boston Globe ). ...

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Traister
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781476716565
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-1656-5
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book