Spinsterhood Reimagined
Are you single, childfree, and tired of the stigma attached to your 'spinster' status? Are you actually having an awesome time, loving your life because of the freedoms afforded to you as a result of being alone and not having kids? Or are you not quite there yet? Either way, this is for you.
This is the podcast where we're going to reclaim the word spinster, where we're going to redefine what the word means, and where we're going to reimagine the outdated narrative around spinsterhood.
Because the truth - the big secret that no-one seems to realise or acknowledge - is that, actually, being a spinster rocks. This podcast will also look at the subject of personal growth and how, as spinsters, we have the luxury of being able to spend time becoming the people we truly want to be; the best versions of ourselves. Because, after all, isn't that what we all want?
Every week I'll release either a 'solo' episode in which I'll ruminate on the many different aspects of being single and childfree - and why they get to be brilliant - such as holidaying alone, living alone, identity, finding your purpose, being an auntie, freedom, opportunity and much, much more; or an episode with an array of fantastic guests with whom I'll be having interesting, inspirational and insightful conversations around the same themes.
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Spinsterhood Reimagined
The One Where I Talk To Journalist & Author, Rebecca Traister
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In this week's episode, I talk to journalist and author, Rebecca Traister.
Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York magazine. A National Magazine Award winner, 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 and The Washington Post. She is the author of Good and Mad, and All The Single Ladies, both New York Times best-sellers, and the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry.
Topics that Rebecca & I cover are:
- how it took getting engaged for Rebecca to feel called to write a book about single women;
- how she spent the majority of her twenties and early thirties as a single women;
- Rebecca’s frustration at marriage still being regarded as the beginning of ‘real’ adulthood;
- how other people’s reactions to her getting married made her very curious about the history of single women;
- the increase in the median age of marriage over the years;
- the reasons for the move away from marriage that begun in the late 19th century;
- how marriage has been used as a way of organising power, and controlling reproduction, throughout history;
- how women were often forced to ‘attach’ themselves to a man for economic reasons;
- how marriage wasn’t built around the notion of love;
- how the advent of teaching became one of the ways for women to earn money;
- how women in the 19th century often feared being within a marriage because of the very real dangers of pregnancy and childbirth at that time;
- the challenge, even now, of getting people to accept and acknowledge that life outside of marriage is valid and full;
- how the victory is not in unmarried life vs married life, but in securing options besides the one and only path of marriage;
- the frightening idea that the conservative right in the US are looking to return us to a place where women are economically and socially dependent on men;
- Roe v Wade and birth control;
- how progress and regress are always happening in tandem.
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