[1] See also,“drapetpomania”a purported mental illness reported by physician Samuel Cartwight to be suffered by slaves fleeing captivity.Here is the imagination of disease when someone who has been disempowered becomes empowered.Cited by Melissa Harris-Perry on“Melissa Harris-Perry,”MSNBC,April 7,2014.
[2] Safire,William,“The Plot to Savage Thomas,”New York Times,October 14,1991 http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/14/opinion/essay-the-plot-to-savage-thomas.html.
[3] Hill,Anita Faye,“Marriage and Patronage in the Empowerment and Disempowerment of African American Women,”in Race,Gender and Power in America,283.
[4] Patty Murray in conversation with Karen Finney at The Atlantic’s“Women in Washington”event,September 25,2013.http://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ContentRecord_id=bc16d80a-aca9-43cc-864a-c645ab 30c2cd.
[5] “Social Indicators of Marital Health and Well-Being,”State of Our Unions Report,2011,http://www.stateofourunions.org/2011/.social_indicators.php.
[6] Anita:Speaking Truth to Power,directed by Frieda Mock,Goldwyn Films,2013.
[7] Quayle,Dan,“The Murphy Brown Speech,”May 19,1992 via Michael A.Cohen’s Live From the Campaign Trail,2008,http://livefromthetrail.com/about-the-book/speeches/chapter-18/vice-president-dan-quayle.
[8] Hymowitz,Kay,Jason S.Carroll,W.Bradford Wilcox,Kelleen Kaye,“Knot Yet:The Benefits and Costs of Delaying Marriage in America,”The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia,The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy,and the Relate Institute,2013,http://twenty somethingmarriage.org/summary/.
[9] Friedan,Betty,The Feminine Mystique,1963/1983,1.
[10] “1.4 million copies…”Menand,Louis,“Books as Bombs:Why the Women’s Movement Needed The Feminine Mystique,”The New Yorker,January 242011.“Credited with having kicked off…”attributed to,among other places,Nora Ephron’s“Miami,”published in Crazy Salad,37–46.
[11] Henry,Astrid,Not My Mother’s Sister,64.
[12] Episode One,Makers:Women Who Make America,PBS,February 26,2013.
[13] Friedan,Betty,“The National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose,”October 29,1966.
[14] Guy-Sheftall,Beverly,Words of Fire,97.Via Coontz,A Strange Stirring.
[15] “In 1970…”from“Median Age at First Marriage:1890 to the Present,”U.S.Census Bureau,Decennial Censuses,1890 to 1940,and Current Population Survey,Annual Social and Economic Supplements,1947 to 2014 and via The U.S.Census Bureau.
[16] Friedan,Betty,“Up From the Kitchen Floor,”The New York Times Magazine,March 4,1973.
[17] Friedan,Betty,The Feminine Mystique,18–19.
[18] a Few Things with Moses Znaimer,CBC,November 4,1968,http://www.cbc.ca/player/Digital+Archives/CBC+Programs/Television/The+Way+It+Is/ID/2575079962/.
[19] Steinem,Gloria,letter to Time,September 16,2000.
[20] Moran,Rachel F.,“How Second Wave Feminism Forgot the Single Woman,”Hofstra Law Review,vol.33,issue 1,article 5,2004.
[21] Cott,Public Vows,199.
[22] Faludi,Backlash,108.
[23] Moran,Rachel F.,“How Second Wave Feminism Forgot the Single Woman,”Hofstra Law Review,vol.33,issue 1,article 5,2004.
[24] “Percent Never Married Among Those Aged 35 and older by Sex:1890–2010”from Elliott,Diana B,Kristy Krivickas,Matthew W.Brault,and Rose M.Kreider,“Historical Marriage Trends from 1890–2010:A Focus on Race,”2012.U.S.Decennial Census(1890–2000)American Community Survey(2010),http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/acs/Elliottetal PAA2012figs.pdf.
[25] Rivers,Caryl,“Newsweek’s Apology Comes 20 Years Too Late,”Women’s eNews,June 14,2006,http://womensenews.org/story/uncovering-gender/060614/news weeks-apology-comes-20-years-too-late.
[26] This exact figure is 57.5 percent,according to the Centers for Disease Control.
[27] “Marriage,More than a Century of Change,”National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University,July 18,2013.
[28] Martin,Jonathan,“A New Firm Sets Out to Secure Women’s Votes for a Vulnerable G.O.P.,”New York Times,November 11,2013.
[29] Lake Research Partners Election Eve Omnibus,November 4–6,2012.
[30] Last,Jonathan V.,“Start a Family…And Before You Know It,You’ll be Voting for the GOP,”Weekly Standard,April 22,2013.
[31] Stan,Adele M.,“After a Generation of Extremism,Phyllis Schlafly Still a Leading General in the War on Women,”Alternet,April 22,2012.
[32] Kotkin,Joel,““Demographic Dead End?”Barack Obama’s Single Nation,”The Daily Beast,October 18,2012,http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/demographic-dead-end-barack-obama-s-single-nation.html.
[33] Gardner,Page,“How Unmarried Women Can Change the World,”Role Reboot,August 18,2015,http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2015-08-how-unmarried-american-women-can-change-the-world/.
[34] Babbin,Jed,“Fluke the Welfare Queen,”The American Spectator,March 12,2012,http://spectator.org/blog/29164/fluke-welfare-queen.Via Joan Walsh,What’s the Matter With White People.
[35] Sawhill,Isabel V.,“Beyond Marriage,”New York Times,September 13,2014.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/beyond-marriage.html.
[36] Wakeman,Jessica,“Bad Advice?Or Worst Advice?Mitt Romney Urges 3012 College Grads to Get Married,Have Kids,”The Frisky,May 1,2013,http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-05-01/bad-advice-or-worst-advice-mitt-romney-urges-2013-college-grads-to-get-married-have-kids/.
[37] Last,Jonathan V.,“America’s Baby Bust,”The Wall Street Journal,February 12,2013.
[38] Carmon,Irin,“Pregnancy is Patriotic!”Salon.com,February 21,2013,http://www.salon.com/2013/02/21/decoding_the_fertility_panic/?source=newsletter.
