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

单身和女性两个词放在一起，总显得有那么一点点特别，人们看到“单身女性”，第一时间冒出的想法也不尽相同。随着近来各种各样教女人为“奴”的内容甚嚣尘上，国内单身女性所处的社会环境实在不算友好，而反观大洋彼岸，丽贝卡·特雷斯特的《我的孤单，我的自我：单身女性的时...  

读完了这一本书，这一本书罗列了许多事实、数据、史料，比较全面地谈论了美国的单身女性团体。在许多方面颇有启发性。 遗憾的有两点： 1. 中美国情不同。在中国，对于单身女性、不婚主义者、甚至高学历女性的接受度更低，且中国的社会福利制度、医疗保健制度、购房补贴制度尚不...  

读完了这一本书，这一本书罗列了许多事实、数据、史料，比较全面地谈论了美国的单身女性团体。在许多方面颇有启发性。 遗憾的有两点： 1. 中美国情不同。在中国，对于单身女性、不婚主义者、甚至高学历女性的接受度更低，且中国的社会福利制度、医疗保健制度、购房补贴制度尚不...  

用户评价

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

五六年前，我处于一种周围人所给予的“你为何还不找男朋友”的压力之下。我一度因自己独身而产生过轻微的羞耻感。默认的模式是成双入对，单身是一种残缺状态。我不觉得这是什么女性主义，这不过是一种抗争，力求一种自主的权利。由你自己选择是否结婚。重要的是自主选择，只是后面的宾语，有时候恰好是是否结婚罢了。

送给27岁还未婚的你，一本有关婚姻和生活的绝佳启示簿！

太迷龙荻了，跟风读的。其实不如预期，大部分还是slogan或者数据输出，洞见和好故事不多。有意思的是作者在最后一章记录了一个和前男友复合闪婚的女生，她说，Just please don't make it sound like the wedding was the end of my story。

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。