Rebecca Traister Quote

Education pioneers including Horace Mann and the never-married Catharine Beecher explicitly conceived of teaching as a job for spinsters, an occupation that could ease the stigma of being unwed27 and permit unmarried women to nurture young children and thus fulfill their domestic calling, even without offspring of their own.

Rebecca Traister

Education pioneers including Horace Mann and the never-married Catharine Beecher explicitly conceived of teaching as a job for spinsters, an occupation that could ease the stigma of being unwed27 and permit unmarried women to nurture young children and thus fulfill their domestic calling, even without offspring of their own.

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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.