All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation Audiobook (Free)

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The 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 Reserve Review).

In 2009 2009, award- about All of the Single Ladies: Unmarried Females and the Rise of an Independent Country winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century trend of the American single woman. It had been the year the percentage of American ladies who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age group of first relationships, 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 greater than a hundred interviews with academics and public scientists and prominent solitary ladies, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the solitary woman in the us is not a fresh a single. And historically, when ladies were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results had been massive public change-temperance, abolition, supplementary education, and even more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are married by age twenty-nine, in comparison to nearly 60 % in 1960.

“An informative and thought-provoking publication for anyone-not simply single ladies” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review), All of the Solitary Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American lifestyle and how we got here, through the lens of the unmarried American girl. Covering class, competition, sexual orientation, and filled up with stunning anecdotes from exciting contemporary and traditional statistics, “we’re better off reading Rebecca Traister on females, politics, and America than just about other people” (The Boston World).