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When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger.

Rebecca Traister

When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger.

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We are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being.

Rebecca Traister

We are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being.

About Author
Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015. Traister regularly appears on cable TV news, commenting on feminism and politics.

Even those who claimed he’d never be president credited him with reaching voters in a visceral way, as having a gift for channeling the rage of a white America which felt it had been left behind, had...

Rebecca Traister

Even those who claimed he’d never be president credited him with reaching voters in a visceral way, as having a gift for channeling the rage of a white America which felt it had been left behind, had...

Later, I would learn that Shakespeare’s comedies ended with wedlock and his tragedies with death, making marriage death’s narrative equivalent and supporting my childhood hunch about its ability to sh...

Rebecca Traister

Later, I would learn that Shakespeare’s comedies ended with wedlock and his tragedies with death, making marriage death’s narrative equivalent and supporting my childhood hunch about its ability to sh...

In fact, in 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.1 And that median age of first marriage that had remained between twenty and twenty-two from 1890 to 1980?2...

Rebecca Traister

In fact, in 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.1 And that median age of first marriage that had remained between twenty and twenty-two from 1890 to 1980?2...

In 1865, the governor of Massachusetts proposed the transport of some of the 38,000 excess women in his state to Oregon and California, where women were in short supply.

Rebecca Traister

In 1865, the governor of Massachusetts proposed the transport of some of the 38,000 excess women in his state to Oregon and California, where women were in short supply.

The recognition that Americans’ rights should neither be circumscribed nor made more expansive based simply on whether they were wed.

Rebecca Traister

The recognition that Americans’ rights should neither be circumscribed nor made more expansive based simply on whether they were wed.

Russian-Polish immigrant and labor organizer and suffragist Rose Schneiderman, who would never marry. Her 1911 speech, in which she implored, The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too b...

Rebecca Traister

Russian-Polish immigrant and labor organizer and suffragist Rose Schneiderman, who would never marry. Her 1911 speech, in which she implored, The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too b...

German scientist Carl Vogt wrote, in 1864, The grown-up Negro partakes, as regards his intellectual faculties, of the nature of the child, the female, and the senile white.

Rebecca Traister

German scientist Carl Vogt wrote, in 1864, The grown-up Negro partakes, as regards his intellectual faculties, of the nature of the child, the female, and the senile white.

America’s first voters were not just white men, but white men who owned property; in England in 1869, unmarried women with property had been granted the right to vote in local elections.

Rebecca Traister

America’s first voters were not just white men, but white men who owned property; in England in 1869, unmarried women with property had been granted the right to vote in local elections.

When people call single women selfish for the act of tending to themselves, it’s important to remember that the very acknowledgment that women have selves that exist independently of others, and espec...

Rebecca Traister

When people call single women selfish for the act of tending to themselves, it’s important to remember that the very acknowledgment that women have selves that exist independently of others, and espec...

In the same period, scientists around the world were working to justify the continued subjugation of women and nonwhites by making medical claims as to their inferior capabilities.

Rebecca Traister

In the same period, scientists around the world were working to justify the continued subjugation of women and nonwhites by making medical claims as to their inferior capabilities.

A social structure that relied on domesticity as its principle mode of female control;

Rebecca Traister

A social structure that relied on domesticity as its principle mode of female control;

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 bust...

Rebecca Traister

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 bust...

By 1920, nearly 40 percent of black women worked for wages, compared to about 18 percent of white women; a 1919 study showed that the typical black laborer in New York City was young, unmarried, and h...

Rebecca Traister

By 1920, nearly 40 percent of black women worked for wages, compared to about 18 percent of white women; a 1919 study showed that the typical black laborer in New York City was young, unmarried, and h...

The dream of a more orderly world.

Rebecca Traister

The dream of a more orderly world.

For if single women are looking for government to create a hubby state for them, what is certainly true is that their male counterparts have a long enjoy the fruits of a related wifey state, in which...

Rebecca Traister

For if single women are looking for government to create a hubby state for them, what is certainly true is that their male counterparts have a long enjoy the fruits of a related wifey state, in which...

Typically only the incivility of the less powerful toward the more powerful can be widely understood as such, and thus be subject to such intense censure. Which is what made #metoo so fraught and revo...

Rebecca Traister

Typically only the incivility of the less powerful toward the more powerful can be widely understood as such, and thus be subject to such intense censure. Which is what made #metoo so fraught and revo...

With voluntary sterility among married men and women of good life . . . If the best classes do not reproduce themselves the nation will of course go down. Roosevelt’s distinctions were rooted in the r...

Rebecca Traister

With voluntary sterility among married men and women of good life . . . If the best classes do not reproduce themselves the nation will of course go down. Roosevelt’s distinctions were rooted in the r...

Yesterday, a beautiful day… I was talking to [an older] woman who said that she wouldn’t want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn’t want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees...

Rebecca Traister

Yesterday, a beautiful day… I was talking to [an older] woman who said that she wouldn’t want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn’t want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees...