Rebecca Traister writes about politics and gender for Salon, and has contributed to the New York Observer, Elle, the New York Times, Vogue, the Nation and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband.
A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, “the most brilliant voice on feminism in the country” (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried and late-married women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation.
In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies—a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism—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 wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a “dramatic reversal.” All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, All the Single Ladies is destined to be a classic work of social history and journalism. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly balanced, and told with Traister’s signature wit and insight, this book should be shelved alongside Gail Collins’s When Everything Changed.
我是一个成年人:一个复杂、但又复杂得很“合理”的人。我是一个身边没有男人陪伴的人,但我有我的朋友、我的家人、我的城市、我的事业——更有我自己。我并不孤独。除我之外,还有许多形形色色的人和我一样。 这是来自美国记者丽贝卡·特雷斯特的一段话,来自他书写的关于单身...
评分看这本书的时候其实很惋惜,这么好的题材,因为文笔和逻辑的问题没有发挥真实的效应。 但是我还是忍不住打了五星,因为书中的闪光点实在耀眼。 所以还在犹豫要不要看的同学,大胆看吧,总会有一句话会让你感同身受。 以下为个人延伸 ————————————————————...
评分单身女性这一路走来太不易了,虽然书里略有偏颇有点为了观点而硬套用数据,但也真的感慨希望现代女生们能多些选择。
评分[有声书] 断断续续听了两个礼拜。虽然被批评洞见不多,但能比较全面地讲为何要给女性单身的权利和自由,以及如何从政策层面上做出推动。具体到每个故事,以及个人故事代表的整个群体,只能说我们真的是活在自己很小的世界里呢。
评分little original content, more like a summary of women's movement in the US.
评分一部在美国生活的单身女性史书。看着这本书有深刻的亲切感,书里记录的人好像是我遥远不相识的姐妹。她们用自己的年岁告诉后来者,你并不孤单并不另类并不是不能拥有幸福。作者文笔,材料收集和storytelling都好得没话说。
评分这书的目的到底是什么我get不到..
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