Photograph of writer Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Cabinet photograph.

Living Single: The History, and Future, of the Unmarried Woman

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 20, 2015

Journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick writes about the 100 million American women, herself included, who remain unmarried. In Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, she explains some of the reasons for this unprecedented demographic shift. Bolick reveals that that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless.

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