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THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is “an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone-not just the single ladies-who want to get a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review).

In ’09 2009, award- about All of the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an unbiased Country winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All of the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century sensation of the American one woman. It had been the year the percentage of American ladies who were wedded dropped below 50 percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had continued to be between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a hundred years (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 one ladies, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the solitary woman in America is not a new a single. And historically, when ladies were given choices beyond early heterosexual relationship, the results were massive public change-temperance, abolition, secondary education, and even more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wedded by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.

“An informative and thought-provoking book for anyone-not just single girls” (The New York Times Book Review), All the Solitary Ladies is a remarkable portrait of modern American lifestyle and how exactly we got here, through the zoom lens from the unmarried American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vibrant anecdotes from interesting contemporary and historic statistics, “we’re better off reading Rebecca Traister on ladies, politics, and America than virtually other people” (The Boston World).