All the single ladies : unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation / Rebecca Traister.

• Watch out for that woman: The political and social power of an unmarried nation -- Single women have often made history: Unmarried in America -- The sex of the cities: Urban life and female independence -- Dangerous as Lucifer matches: The friendships of women -- My solitude, my self: Single women on their own -- For richer: Work, money, and independence -- For poorer: Single women and sexism, racism, and poverty -- Sex and the single girls: Virginity to promiscuity and beyond -- Horse and carriage: Marrying, and not marrying, in the time of singlehood -- Then comes what? And when?: Independence and parenthood -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Where are they now?. 

• In 2010, 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. 

Ämnesord

Feminism  (sao)

Ensamstående kvinnor  (sao)

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

Kvinnor  (sao)

Single women  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Women  -- United States -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Feminism  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Feminism  (LCSH)

Women  (LCSH)

Single women  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States  -- Civilization. (LCSH)

United States  -- History. (LCSH)

United States  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Oac Familjesociologi

Klassifikation

HQ880.4.U6 (LCC)

306.81/530973 (DDC)

Oac (kssb/8)