All the single ladies : unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation /
"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.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the sin...
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
