Other Writings

Review of Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation in The Women's Review of Books
Volume 55, issue 5, September/October 2016

Review of Bella DePaulo, How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st. Century and Susan Golombok, Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms in the Journal of Family Theory & Review. Vol 18, #2, 2016

Guest blogs on Psych Central
Kate, Kay and the Single Ladies, Part 1: Different Experiences of Single Life Across the Generations
Part 2: Experiments in Living Outside of a Nuclear Family Household

2016

Single Women
With Bella DePaulo, Fact Sheet about Singleness published by Sociologists for Women in Society
Winter 2008

Reluctant Revolutionaries
Review essay on three books on single mothers
Women's Review of Books Nov/Dec 2007

Making Room for Singles in Teaching and Research
By Bella DePaulo, Rachel F. Moran & E. Kay Trimberger
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2007, P. B44-45

Farther Beyond the 'M' Word
Dissent Magazine, April 2007

Single Americans Are Hardly Flying Solo
With Bella DePaulo
San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2007.

Can a Single Woman Really Be Happy Without a Soul Mate?
Diane Mapes (ed.)
Single State of the Union. Diane Mapes (ed.). Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, Spring, 2007

Blossoming in middle age It's not all about sex for women from 45 to 59
By E. Kay Trimberger
San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, April 23, 2006

Syllabus for a course on Single Women
Washington, D.C. American Sociological Association, 2002

Life and the Single Woman
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, March 10, 2001

Holiday Spirit, 21st Century Style
With Bella DePaulo
Psychology Today Blogs - November 23, 2008

Network of Friends: A Pillar for Single Women
Smart Now - November 2008

Single Women in India: Rarer, Riskier, and Happier Than in the U.S.
Alternatives to Marriage Project, Newsletter - September 2008

Single Women in India: A Conversation with Kay Trimberger
Psychology Today Blogs - October 15, 2008

Sex, Sensuality and the Mid-Life Single Woman
Smart Now - July 2008

Single Women Over Forty Create the Good Life
Single Choice - June 3, 2008

Single Paths to the Good Life
Smart Now - May 30,2008

Single Women and the U.S. Women's Movement: Insights from India
Beacon Broadside, March 27, 2008 & Guernica Magazine, April 7, 2008

Single at the Holidays: Not Alone, but a Different Kind of Togetherness
Beacon Broadside - November 20, 2007

"Improving Our Writing as a Prerequisite for Public Sociology"
SWS, Network News, Spring 2007, p. 12

"Unconventional Wisdom A Survey Of Research And Clinical Findings"
My research included in Council on Contemporary Families, May 2007

Intimate Warriors: Writings from a Modern Marriage, 1899-1944
New York, N.Y. The Feminist Press, 1991

"Friendship Networks and Care"
Working Paper # 31, Center for Working Families, U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2001

"Heterosexuality" in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998: 255

"The New Woman and the New Sexuality: Mabel Dodge and Neith Boyce" in 1915: the Cultural Moment
Edited by Adele Heller & Lois Rudnick
Rutgers University Press, 1991

"Feminism, Men and Modern Love Greenwich Village, 1900-1925," in Powers of Desire The Politics of Sexuality
Edited by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharon Thompson New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983: 131-152

"Women in the Old and New Left: The Evolution of a Politics of Personal Life"
Feminist Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall, 1979), 432-461

Community Action in a Course on Feminist Organizations
Transformations: A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship. Vol. 8, #1, Spring 1997: 91-113.

Syllabus for a course on Gender, Sexuality and Family in The Sociology of Sex and Gender
Syllabi and Instructional Materials, 3rd edition. Edited by Virginia Powell
Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 1990

Syllabus for a course on Race, Sex and Class in Toward An Inclusive Sociology
Race Class and Gender in The Sociology Curriculum, Edited by Patricia Hill Collins and Margaret Andersen
Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 1988

Paid Family Leave: Everyone Wins
San Jose Mercury News, Friday, June 21, 2002

Hitting the Road After Jonah
A film review of Alain Turner's Mesidor
In These Times, July 15-28, 1981

Defending the Right to Abortion as a Top Priority of the Left
With Mary P. Ryan and Judy Stacey
In These Times, July 4-10, 1979

"Ones of a Kind," a review of Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel
Women's Review of Books, Vol. XX, #3, December 2002

"For Better or Worse," a review of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
by Nancy Cott
Women's Review of Books, Vol. XVIII, #7, April, 2001, p. 21

Review of Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
by Jana Wolff
PACER Newsletter (Post Adoption Center for Education & Research), summer 1997: 4-5

"Family Matters," a review of The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
The Nation, June 19, 1995: 896-898