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Introduction
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2013
- pp. 20-23
- 10.1353/dss.2013.0003
- Article
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A feminist conspiracy couldn’t have planted the number of trend pieces about women we’ve seen this year. Touting the new economic dominance of women, Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men became a bestseller alongside Naomi Wolf’s Vagina: A New Biography. The Atlantic published popular articles such as “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter a former high-ranking State Department official, and “All the Single Ladies,” by Kate Bolick, on the trials, and ultimately the joys, of being single in a world of independent, amazingly well-housed women.
Bolick describes the sisterhood:
Deb gave me the use of her handsome mid-century apartment in Chelsea when she vacated town for a meditation retreat; Courtney bequeathed her charming Brooklyn aerie while she traveled alone through Italy; Catherine put me up at her rambling Cape Cod summer house . . .