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The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual economic and emotional lives of women is an informative and thought-provoking book for anyonenot just the single ladieswho 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 (18901980) 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 mor