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Rebecca Traister<\/a><\/span>, author of the recent book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, will speak in Lehigh University\u2019s Whitaker Lab 303 (Auditorium), on Thursday, March 30 at 4 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Her book is among the “Best Books of 2016” identified by The Boston Globe and NPR, and is included among the Top 100 Books of 2016 selection of The New York Times, described as “a deeply researched and thought-provoking examination of the role of single women throughout history.”<\/p>\n Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist, 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. Traister\u2019s first book, Big Girls Don\u2019t Cry, about women and the 2008 election, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.<\/p>\n The talk is free and open to the public (no ticket required). For more information, call (610) 758-3039<\/span><\/u><\/a>. The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries and the Lehigh University Department of English.<\/p>\n From The New York Times:<\/strong> For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nReaders don\u2019t have to rely solely on \u00adTraister\u2019s experience; \u201cAll the Single Ladies\u201d includes numerous accounts from dozens of women navigating big questions about work, marriage and children, in addition to everyday challenges involving money and loneliness. She talks to young women trying to earn college degrees after having children, and she talks to feminist icons like Gloria Steinem. She finds women who live in big cities and women who live in small towns, where remaining single after your early 20s is virtually unheard of.<\/p>\n