Rebecca Traister Explained

Rebecca Traister
Education:Northwestern University (BA)
Genre:Nonfiction
Notableworks:Good and Mad
Big Girls Don't Cry
All the Single Ladies
Children:2

Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine.[1] Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015.[1] [2]

Early life and education

Born in 1975 to a Jewish father and Baptist mother, Traister was raised on a farm.[3] She attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and Northwestern University. After college, she moved to New York City.

Writing and awards

Traister's first book, the non-fiction Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women (2010), was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010,[4] and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2012.[5]

Traister's second non-fiction book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016),[6] a New York Times best-seller, has been referred to as a followup to the first. Gillian Whitemarch of The New York Times described it as a "well-researched, deeply informative examination of women’s bids for independence, spanning centuries."[7]

In 2018, Traister published another book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.[8]

Awards and recognition

Traister received a "Making Trouble / Making History Award" from the Jewish Women's Archive in 2012 at its annual luncheon. Longtime activist Gloria Steinem was the presenter.[9] [10]

In 2012, Traister received a Mirror Award for Best Commentary in Digital Media for two essays that appeared in Salon ("'30 Rock' Takes on Feminist Hypocrisy–and Its Own," and "Seeing 'Bridesmaids' is a Social Responsibility"), and one that was published in The New York Times ("The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!").[11]

Personal life

In 2011, Traister married Darius Wadia, a public defender in Brooklyn. The couple lives in New York, with their two daughters.[12] [13] [14]

Works

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Pompeo . Joe. Rebecca Traister leaving T.N.R. for New York . Politico. June 9, 2015. September 3, 2015. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905220120/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/06/8569836/rebecca-traister-leaving-emtnrem-emnew-yorkem . September 5, 2015 .
  2. NR Staff . 2016 . Rebecca Traister . . June 18 . online article directory . 1 March 2016 .
  3. News: Bronzite. Sarah. Women no longer need to be married. The Jewish Chronicle. London. April 14, 2016.
  4. Book: 100 Notable Books of 2010 . 24 November 2010 . 27 October 2010.
  5. Web site: WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize Honorees . WOMEN’S WAY . 27 October 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312151855/https://www.womensway.org/womens-way-book-prize/ . 12 March 2016 .
  6. Book: Traister, Rebecca . All the single ladies: unmarried women and the rise of an independent nation . 2016 . Simon & Schuster . 978-1-4767-1656-5 . First Simon & Schuster hardcover . New York.
  7. News: Whitemarch. Gillian B.. 'All the Single Ladies' [Subtitle: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation], by Rebecca Traister ]. The New York Times. March 1, 2016. 1 March 2016 . [H]ow do women view their own trajectory, and have society and cultural expectations caught up to what the statistics show is actually happening? Traister is certainly not the first writer to delve into these questions, but she skillfully advances the conversation with this book. A mix of interviews and historical analysis, “All the Single Ladies” is a well-researched, deeply informative examination of women’s bids for independence, spanning centuries. The material can threaten to be overwhelming at times, but Traister provides a thoughtful culling of history to help bridge the gap between, on the one hand, glib depictions of single womanhood largely focused on sexual escapades and, on the other, grave warnings that female independence will unravel the very fabric of the country..
  8. Web site: A book for all the angry ladies. Kate. Tuttle. October 19, 2018. Los Angeles Times.
  9. News: Goodman. Elyssa. The Sisterhood: Seeing Beauty in 'Making Trouble'. The Jewish Daily Forward. March 21, 2012. online blog . April 16, 2012.
  10. Web site: Making Trouble / Making History Jewish Women's Archive. May 7, 2016.
  11. News: Garcia. Carmen. Traister wins Mirror Award. . June 18, 2012. September 3, 2015.
  12. Web site: New York Institute for the Humanities | Featured Fellow: Rebecca Traister . March 18, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160317214436/http://www.nyihumanities.org/featured-fellow-rebecca-traister/ . March 17, 2016., New York institute for Humanities, December, 2011.
  13. Web site: Little-seen MSNBC interview has big implications for working moms. Fortune. March 11, 2015. June 3, 2017.
  14. News: Heinis. John. Judith Wadia, 73, of Weehawken, an artist and environmental activist. The Jersey Journal. New Jersey Online. December 1, 2011. November 27, 2017.

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