“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“feminist Sheila Cronan wrote, “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women . . . Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“The only way some feminists were able to absorb the notion of a woman who didn’t necessarily want to marry a man… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
