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Book: All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
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  1. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    As journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates has sensibly observed, "human beings are pretty logical and generally savvy about identifying their interests. Despite what we've heard, women tend to be human beings and if they are less likely to marry today, it is probably that they have decided that marriage doesn't advance their interests as much as it once did."60"
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  2. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Of course, single people are lonely. Of course. We have all been lonely. For moments, for days, for endless, chilled seasons of sequestration. For some women, the loneliness may stem from, or be exacerbated by, the drain of having to do everything for yourself.
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  3. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Stone kept her last name, and generations of women who have done the same have been referred to as "Lucy Stoners.
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  4. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    education pioneers including Horace Mann and the never-married Catharine Beecher "explicitly conceived of teaching as a job for spinsters," an occupation that could "ease the stigma of being unwed"27 and permit unmarried women to nurture young children and thus fulfill their domestic calling, even without offspring of their own.
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  5. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Znaimer asks Steinem what she wants to be "when you grow up." "Free," Steinem replies, "and old . . . and a little mean."18
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  6. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    perfect servants of god, family, and community. Women without husbands were often expected to care for the sick and destitute within their communities, and were expected to care for aging parents as married siblings headed off to tend new families.
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  7. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    a social structure that relied on domesticity as its principle mode of female control;
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  8. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Published in 1829, The Young Lady's Book asserted that "Whatever situation of life a woman is placed, from her cradle to her grave, a spirit of obedience and submission, pliability of temper, and humility of mind, are required from her."19 Everyday tasks were made more time-consuming and taxing, so as to better fill the days of women who might otherwise grow restive and attempt to leave the house.
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  9. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    wealthy, white American wife, relieved of her responsibilities for at-home production, became responsible for scrupulously maintaining a domicile that served as the feminized inverse of the newly bustling, masculine public space.
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  10. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    a new model of aspirational upper-class femininity and attitude about female purpose that historians now refer to as the Cult of Domesticity.
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  11. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Free women of color were permitted to inherit, own property, businesses, and slaves; it was not expected that they would marry. The comparative economic and sexual liberty experienced by these libre women provided them some incentive to steer clear of what free Maria Gentilly, who, after a husband squandered her estate, sued to recover it in the 1790s,17 called "the yoke of matrimony.
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  12. Rebecca Traister _ All the Single Ladies:

    Coverture encompassed what legal historian Ariela Dubler has called "a stunning array of status-defining legal restrictions" that prevented wives from keeping their own wages, entering contracts or bringing legal action.10 "In its strictly economic aspect the traditional marriage contract resembled an indenture between master and servant,
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