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What is Spinster about?

A bold, original, moving book that will inspire fanatical devotion and ignite debate.Whom to marry, and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence. So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she - along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing - remains unmarried.This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down,

Who reads Spinster?

Author

Bolick, Kate

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc : [distributor] Grantham Book Services Ltd : [distributor] Random House Australia : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] Booksite Afrika : [distributor] Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385347150

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Gender Studies

Rating

3.43 / 5 (5,844 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14