Gay marriage, inherently and ideally based on love and companionship, and not on gender-defined social and economic power, will be key to our ability to re-imagined straight marriage.
Friends did not form isolated dyads but were normally part of highly integrated networks
Cities have long provided safer harbor for, and have in turn been shaped by, single women.
Perfect servants of god, family, and community. Women without husbands were often expected to care for the sick and destitute within their communities, and were expected to care for aging parents as m...
A social structure that relied on domesticity as its principle mode of female control;
The other side of the anger is the hope. We wouldn't be angry if we didn't believe that it could be better.
The ideas that undergirded Single Blessedness were that women unmarried by chance or by choice had their own acceptably submissive purpose. The singly blessed were presumed to be pious vessels whose c...
Stone kept her last name, and generations of women who have done the same have been referred to as Lucy Stoners.
Single women helped put Barack Obama back in the White House; they voted for him by 67 to 31 percent, while married women voted for Romney.
Single women foot more of their own bills, be they necessities like food and housing, or luxuries like cable and vacations; they pay for their own transportation. They do not enjoy the tax breaks or i...
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...
Men, including a former senator, told me of how shaken they were to hear from their wives and friends and mothers and coworkers about the ubiquity of sexual assault and harassment, how they had had th...
Men literally have no idea how to even legitimately recognize or name our anger—largely because we don’t either. This is new territory for everybody. Women’s rage has been so sublimated for so long th...
Letisha also misses New York, and what it offered her as a single mother, even at the same time that it made it impossible for her to stay. In New York, everybody on the corner knew who I was, she sai...
It's true that increasing one's number of sexual partners almost certainly increases the risk of sexually transmitted disease and of unintended pregnancy. It increases the chance of having your soul s...
In 1993, Bill Clinton appointed Joycelyn Elders, an outspoken advocate of humane drug laws and abortion rights, as Surgeon General of the United States. The following year, at a United Nations confere...
If there are broad distinctions to be made between the nature of same-sex female pairs versus heterosexual ones, it’s that the same-sex unions have not entailed one of their members being automaticall...
I returned again and again to a proclamation made by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, nearly two centuries earlier, that if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the healt...
Here was the idea of service and moral uplift brought into disruptive relief: What if women, in service to greater and moral good, did not submit themselves to a larger power structure, but instead or...
But, for the unmarried, legal abortion provided yet another tool to protect their ability to live outside of marriage.