All the Single Ladies

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.

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Rebecca Traister

页数:352

出版时间:2016-3-1

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781476716565

图书标签:女性女性主义社会学英文原版美国性别研究非虚构社会科学

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.

读后感

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...  

对于远离家人的都市女性来说，《单身女性的时代》是一本像武器一般的书，每个单身女孩都可以拿着它对自己的家人说，看到没有，书上说了，一个人也可以过得很好。 这本书本身就是反击。长期以来，无论中外，对单身女性的污名都是压在这些女性头顶的大山，无论事业多么成功，她们...  

《傲骨之战》第二季末尾，Lucca的母亲对她说，如果你想知道一段关系能否长久，可以设想每天回家看到门口停着那个人的车时是否会感到快乐。Lucca回答说她回家不想看到任何人，她母亲接着说，那你就应该等到有那样一个让你开心的人出现时。 建议女儿在明确自己所愿之前不贸然踏入...  

用户评价

Quite well-researched in spite of the title. 政策研究大有可为 希望社会以更包容更开放更多元化的眼光看待女性的职业选择与婚姻状况 争取平权终归任重道远!

[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。

little original content, more like a summary of women's movement in the US.

写的很好的通俗史

不管是主动选择还是被动成为，单身女性对社会的重塑只会越来越显著。涵盖的方面很多，许多有共鸣，许多于我而言仍然超前。有些地方很生动，有些地方看起来像文献综述一样。中间有一段非常理性的探讨了劳动关系和单身率生育率关系的感觉可以继续延伸。APPENDIX有点过于理想化了。