TY - BOOK AU - Traister,Rebecca TI - All the single ladies: unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation SN - 9781501160691 U1 - 305.42 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, etc PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Single women KW - United States KW - History KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Feminism KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Ch. 1. Watch out for that woman: the political and social power of an unmarried nation -- Ch. 2. Single women have often made history -- Ch. 3. The sex of the cities: urban life and female independence -- Ch. 4. Dangerous as Lucifer matches: the friendship of women -- Ch. 5. My solitude, my self: single women on their own -- Ch. 6. For richer: work, money, and independence -- Ch. 7. For poorer: single women and sexism, racism, and poverty -- Ch. 8. Sex and the single girls: virginity to promiscuity and beyond -- Ch. 9. Horse and carriage: marrying-and not marrying-in the time of singlehood -- Ch. 10. Then comes what? And when? Independence and parenthood N2 - 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 ER -