Author predicts a shift to the left as single women flex economic and political muscleWhat effect young single women want? Sex,power, money, and friendship,careers, clothes, and husbands,babies – or none of the above? The short reply, according to All the Single Ladies: single Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation – a book American reviewers are falling over themselves to compliment as a landmark account of singleness – is the freedom to shape their lives in ways they, or society,and men, are only beginning to understand.
In a media blitz last week, and New York author Rebecca Traister laid out her case: single women are a revolutionary force challenging social definitions,getting married later in life, or not at all, and changing “everything about the way the nation works”.
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Source: theguardian.com