All the Single Ladies

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. She has written about women in politics, media and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire. Rebecca’s first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women and the 2008 election was a New York Times Notable book of 2010. Her newest work is All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. Rebecca was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall, Women’s Funding Alliance, and University Book Store, as part of the Civics series.