Reviews and Articles
Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother Untangles Nature & Nurture
June 2021
"Creole Son," by Sherry Keith in the CSU Reporter, June 2021
Newsletter of the California State University Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association, p. 7.
March 2021
Review from Family Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Annie Derthick, PhD, Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Lewiston, ME
April 2020
If You Were Wrong About a Core Belief, Would You Admit It? A single white mother and her adopted biracial son tell their unexpected story.
Bella Depaulo, on Psychology Today, Living Single Blog
New Single Woman
MAY 2007
Review of the Polish Edition, Nowa Singielka, "Sama nie samotna."
By Kazimiera Szczukar, May 7, 2007 Polityka
JULY 2006
Contemporary Sociology
By Amy Traver, July 2006 Vol. 35, #4
JUNE 2006
L. Wolfer, review in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
By L. Wolfer, June 2006 Vol. 43, # 10
MAY 2006
"Single - Og Stolt Af Det," ALT For Damerne
May 10, 2006 (Danish women's magazine Everything for Women)
APRIL 2006
The Midwest Book Review
Review in The Women's Issues Shelf, April 2006
JANUARY 2006
Love and Marriage (or Not)
By Andi Zeisler, January/February, 2006 © 2006 Women's Review of Books
JANUARY 2006
Philobiblon Review, with Reader Responses
By Natalie Bennett, January 31, 2006
In part seeking answers for her own life -- she's a never-married woman who adopted a child on her own at age 40 -- Trimberger seeks to identify the steps, emotional and practical, they needed to take to become "happy". Read more...
NOVEMBER 2005
Single, Not Looking
By Jocelyn Kaye, November 19, 2005 The UWM Post
OCTOBER 2005
The 'soulmate' curse; Belief in the existence of an ideal mate is hurting single women
Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont, October 9, 2005
More than half said that they "would form a permanent partnership with a soulmate even if the sex wasn't very good." Because casual and consensual sex is so readily available to young people and the divorce rate is so high, the search for a soulmate implies the need for a deeper and presumably more permanent bond.
OCTOBER 2005
New Book Empowers Single Women
By Stephanie Lam, October 5, 2005 © 2005 The Daily Californian
Let's face it: Some people don't get married. Some people don't end up coupled like oxygen atoms in cute pairs for the rest of their lives. And as one visiting scholar at UC Berkeley insists, that is just as legitimate and acceptable a way of life.
SEPTEMBER 2005
Is living alone the new happy ending?
By Jennifer Moeller, September 27, 2005 © 2005 The Christian Science Monitor
Could Cinderella have been happy if she had never met Prince Charming? Before reading E. Kay Trimberger's book, The New Single Woman, I wouldn't even have asked the question.
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SEPTEMBER 2005
Sex and the Solitary Woman
By Daphne Merkin, September 2005 © 2005 Elle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2005
Dear diary: Bridget Jones had it all wrong
By Jane Ganahl, Sunday, September 11, 2005 © 2005 SF Chronicle
Can you hear it? That grinding noise? It's the paradigm shifting ever so slightly for single women. You have to look closely to find the evidence -- amid shows like "The Bachelorette" and "Bridezillas" and news stories about so-called "runaway brides." But marriage may be becoming -- at least for women older than 35 -- an elective course in the school of life, no longer adamantly required.
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SEPTEMBER 2005
Single women are learning life goes on without a mate
By Sue Hutchinson, September 24, 2005 © 2005 San Jose Mercury News
SEPTEMBER 2005
Going solo, but not alone
By Wendy Edelstein, September 14, 2005 © 2005 UC Berkeley News
When Kay Trimberger realized in the early '90s that she would probably remain single for the rest of her days, she responded as any good sociologist would. She organized a study.
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AUGUST 2005
Suzanne w. Wood
Library Journal, August 2005
FEBRUARY 2004
Sociologist Kay Trimberger is Documenting a New Trend of Unmarried Women Who are Not Only Content, but Happy with their Singular Lives.
By Susan Swartz, February 29, 2004 © 2004 The Press Democrat
Don't feel sorry for singles, and call off their worried parents and matchmaking friends. They're just fine, or at least they're doing better than most think, according to Kay Trimberger, a sociologist and Sonoma State University professor whose research into singleness has developed into a theory about the "new single woman."