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Now Put Your Hands Up

December 2, 2016 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Cannonball Read is the best for getting good books in front of your eyeballs. I read expandingbookshelf’s review of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation this summer and added the book to my to read list on Goodreads. Then I read Lollygagger’s review early this fall and I put in my library hold. I hope some of you will do the same. I am a single lady in my 30s. I have never been married. I am one […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: All the single ladies, faintingviolet, feminism, Rebecca Traister

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:77 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: All the single ladies, faintingviolet, feminism, Rebecca Traister ·
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Sisters are doing it for themselves

June 16, 2016 by expandingbookshelf Leave a Comment

Despite all those engagement pictures you’re inundated with on Facebook are telling you, marriage rates in America are slowing down. According to the U.S. Census, the proportion of married adults is dropping and for the first time, single women outnumber their married counterparts. Author Rebecca Traister argues that these unmarried women are a revolutionary force, changing our definitions of love and family, and pushing the political conversation to the left. “Women…perhaps especially those who have lived untethered from the energy-sucking and identity-sapping institution of marriage […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: All the single ladies, feminism, history, Non-Fiction, politics, Rebecca Traister, women

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:64 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: All the single ladies, feminism, history, Non-Fiction, politics, Rebecca Traister, women ·
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