I’m in my 30s and haven’t married yet, but marriage is not in my own top five questions and hasn’t been for some time. I’m much more interested in whether I’ll write a book or have kids, and much more defined and governed by race, class, gender, and the changing climate. I might feel differently if I were a socialite or sorority sister or a member of a fundamentalist religious community, but the world Bolick describes is not the one I live in.
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Briallen Hopper questions Kate Bolick’s take on spinsterhood in an in-depth essay on relationships, women, and culture.