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008			161229s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
020			_a9781501160691
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100	1		_92861 _aTraister, Rebecca
245	1	0	_aAll the single ladies : _bunmarried women and the rise of an independent nation / _cRebecca Traister.
260			_aNew York, etc : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2016.
300			_axvi, 339 p. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
520			_aIn 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.
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650		0	_9814 _aWomen _zUnited States _xSocial conditions
650		0	_9972 _aFeminism _zUnited States _xHistory
651		0	_9614 _aUnited States _xCivilization
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