Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine. She has written about women from a feminist perspective for The New Republic, Elle, and Salon and contributed to The Nation, New York Observer, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Traister’s books include Big Girls Don’t Cry, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize; All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, a Times best-seller and Notable Book of 2016, and the forthcoming Good and Mad. She’s also won the Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis and a 2017 National Magazine Award.
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