02370cam a2200349 i 4500 286392536 TxAuBib 20170301120000.0 160107s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781476716565 hardcover 1476716560 hardcover (OCoLC)933728312 TxAuBib rda Traister, Rebecca,. All the single ladies : unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation / Rebecca Traister. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2016. xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316). In 2010, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started a book that she thought would be about the twenty-first-century phenomenon of the American single woman. Over the course of her research, Traister made a startling discovery: historically, when women have had options beyond early heterosexual marriage, their resulting independence has provoked massive social change. Unmarried women were crucial to the abolition, suffrage, temperance, and labor movements; they created settlement houses and secondary education for women. Today, only 20% of Americans are wed by age 29, compared to nearly 60% in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a "dramatic reversal." Traister sets out to examine how this generation of independent women is changing the world. This is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman. Covering class, race, and sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, this book is destined to be a classic work of social history and journalism.--Adapted from dust jacket. 20170301. Single women United States History. Women United States Social conditions. Feminism United States History. United States Civilization. United States History. United States Social conditions. BSBPL