Candidate Claims She Is Superior Because She Is a Mother
In Oklahoma, the Republican candidate for governor is telling the people of that state that they should vote for her instead of her opponent because she is a wife and…
Condoleezza Rice Is Asked Whether She Would Consider Herself Fulfilled If She Never Married
Politics aside, Condoleezza Rice’s achievements have been amazing. As I noted at some length in Singled Out, I was appalled by how often this ever-single woman got the singles treatment…
Special Offer, New Chapter, and Blog Crawl News
Blog crawl news first. The featured writers today were Lisa and Christina from Onely. They wrote a great post hosted by Living Single called Fun with fallacies: The rhetoric of…
SWR Blog Crawl: Visioning a World without Singlism – Guest Post by Rachel Buddeberg
2010 SingleWomenRule.com Blog Crawl for National Unmarried and Single Americans Week September 19-25, 2010 Bella’s Introduction I’m delighted to have Rachel Buddeberg crawl over to All Things Single with this…
How Did Singles Week Happen? Guest Post by Thomas F. Coleman
Bella’s Introduction Did you know that every year the Census Bureau issues a press release, “Facts for Features – Unmarried and Single Americans Week”? I admit I’m easily amused, but…
Next Up: Emotional Independence
In a recent post over at Living Single, I reviewed Rachel Moran’s argument that second-wave feminism had forgotten the single woman. The focus, instead, was largely on the superwoman who…
Many Voices, One Question: Should the Government Privilege Married People?
[This post is co-authored by Bella Depaulo and Rachel Buddeberg.] Same-sex marriage is advocated as a basic human right. We applaud any expansion of human rights. Yet, as we’ve watched…
Coupling Wasn’t Always So Intensive: Notes from a Social Historian
Over at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today, I asked this question: The rise of the couple and demise of all the rest: How did this happen? In the…
“Acting Single” – Here’s What a CNN Columnist Thinks It Means
A CNN relationships columnist told the story of coming home from work after a bad day, and telling her boyfriend that it was nothing, just a work matter, when he…