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Spinster

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An electric and bracingly original story that expands our understanding of what it means to choose a life alone.«Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesn't practice.» So begins Spinster, a revelatory, lyrical, 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, yet still cannot outrun those two pesky questions.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…
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  • loevelifeцитирует8 лет назад
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?
  • loevelifeцитирует8 лет назад
    You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. You are able, though not without great labour and effort, to pay the rent. You are earning your five hundred pounds a year. But this freedom is only a beginning; the room is your own, but it is still bare. It has to be furnished; it has to be decorated; it has to be shared. How are you going to furnish it, how are you going to decorate it? With whom are you going to share it, and upon what terms? These, I think are questions of the utmost importance and interest. For the first time in history you are able to ask them; for the first time you are able to decide for yourselves what the answers should be.
    —Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women,” 1931
  • mecalcagцитирует2 года назад
    had ever exerted control over their own bodies and the reproductive process. The first time women were acting on the idea that they were people first, women second

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