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23
. Ingeno, Lauren, “Let's Talk (Differently) About Sex,”
Inside Higher Ed
, July 29, 2013,
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/29/changing-hook-culture-conversation-college-campuses
.

24
. Rosin, “Boys on the Side,”
The Atlantic.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Friedman, Ann, “When Women Pursue Sex, Even Men Don't Get It,”
New York
, June 4, 2013,
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/when-women-pursue-sex-even-men-dont-get-it.html
.

27
. Kitroeff, Natalie, “In Hookups, Inequality Still Reigns,”
New York Times
, November 11, 2013,
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/women-find-orgasms-elusive-in-hookups/
.

28
. Maines, Rachel P., The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. Via
New York Times
excerpt,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/maines-technology.html
.

29
. Hess, Amanda, “Abstinence Won't Solve Hookup Culture,”
Slate,
April 1, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/04/01/abstinence_won_t_solve_the_hookup_culture_donna_freitas_is_wrong_about_sex.html
.

Chapter Nine: Horse and Carriage

1
. Waldman, Katy, “Young People in Japan Have Given Up on Sex,”
Slate
, October 22, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/22/celibacy_syndrome_in_japan_why_aren_t_young_people_interested_in_sex_or.html
.

2
. Haworth, Abigail, “Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex?”
The Guardian,
October 20, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex
.

3
. “Survey Shows One Third of Japanese Think Marriage Is ‘Pointless,' ”
Japan Daily Press
, July 2, 2013,
http://japandailypress.com/survey-shows-one-third-of-japanese-think-marriage-is-pointless-0231559/
.

4
. Haworth, “Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex?”
The Guardian.

5
. Eurostat, Statistics Explained,
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Main_Page
.. Via Hillary White, “Italians Not Having Kids and Now, Not Getting Married Either, New Stats,”
Lifesite News
, June 6, 2011.

6
. Evans, Stephen, “Is the German Insult ‘Raven Mothers' Holding Back Women at Work?” BBC News, March 11, 2011,
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-12703897
.

7
. Eurostat, Statistics Explained,
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Main_Page
.

8
. Luscombe, Belinda, “Who Needs Marriage? A Changing Institution,”
Time
, November 18, 2010,
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2032116,00.html
.

9
. “Crude Marriage Rate,”
Chartsbin.com
,
http://chartsbin.com/view/3219

10
. Hess, Amanda, “When It Comes to ‘Having it All,' Men Want More,”
Slate,
October 31, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/31/work_life_balance_study_professional_men_are_more_likely_than_women_to_want.html
.

11
. Wade, Lisa, “Most Women Would Rather Divorce than be a Housewife,”
The Society Pages, December 29, 2013,
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/01/28/mens-and-womens-gender-ideologies-ideals-and-fallbacks/
.

12
. Cherlin, Andrew J., “In the Season of Marriage, a Question: Why Bother?”
New York Times
, April 27, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/why-do-people-still-bother-to-marry.html?pagewanted=all
.

13
. Adelman, Lori, “Amelia Earhart's Prenup from the 1930s Lays Out a Pretty Darn Modern Vision of Marriage,”
Feministing.com
, December 12, 2010,
http://feministing.com/2012/12/10/amelia-earhart-prenup-from-1930s-lays-out-a-pretty-darn-modern-vision-of-marriage/
.

14
. Cotten, Trystan T. and Kimberly Springer eds.,
Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture,
University Press of Mississippi, 2010, 23.

15
. Tauber, Michelle, “Oprah at 50: Prime Time of Her Life,”
People
, February 2, 2004.

16
. Rauch, Jonathan, “Red Families, Blue Families, Gay Families and the Search for a New Normal,”
Journal of Law and Inequality,
Summer 2010
,
via
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/red-blue-and-gay-marriage/
. And “Women's Median Age at First Marriage by State,”
LiveScience.com
, March 18, 2013,
http://www.livescience.com/27974-women-media-age-marriage-states.html
.

17
. “Women Who Get Hitched Early, Divorce Early,”
Indian Express
, November 10, 2011.

18
. “U.S. Divorce Rate Statistics,” Centers for Disease Control, National Survey of Family Growth, May 23, 2015.

19
. Nellie Bly interview with Susan B. Anthony,
The World
, February 2, 1896,
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/621269?acl=851761768&imagelist=1#full-images&rc=blog
.

20
. Coontz. Stephanie, “The Disestablishment of Marriage,”
New York Times
, March 23, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/coontz-the-disestablishment-of-marriage.html?pagewanted=all
.

21
. “The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families,” Pew Research Center, November 18, 2010,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/11/18/the-decline-of-marriage-and-rise-of-new-families/3./

22
. Parker, Kim, “5 Facts About Today's Fathers,” PEW Research Center, June 18, 2015,
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/18/5-facts-about-todays-fathers/
.

23
. “American Time Use Survey—2014 Results,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, June 24, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf
.

24
. Chernoff, Allan, “The Millennials—Ever Optimistic about Jobs,”
CNN Money,
May 18, 2011.

25
. Dewan, Shaila and Robert Gebeloff, “More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women,”
The New York Times
, May 20, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-seek-success-in-jobs-dominated-by-women.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1
.

26
. Livingston, Gretchen, “Growing Number of Dads Home with Kids,” Pew Research Center,” June 5, 2014,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/06/05/growing-number-of-dads-home-with-the-kids/
. Via Miller, Claire Cain, “More Fathers Who Stay at Home By Choice,”
New York Times
, June 5, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/upshot/more-fathers-who-stay-at-home-by-choice.html
.

27
. Esteve, Albert and J. Garcia-Roman and I. Permanyer, “The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation: The End of Hypergamy,”
Population and Development Review
, vol. 38, issue 3, September 2012,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030093739.htm
.

28
. Oxfeld, Jesse, “Yesterday an Oppressed Minority, Today an Old Maid,”
New York
Observer
, June 2013,
http://observer.com/2013/06/yesterday-an-oppressed-minority-today-an-old-maid/#ixzz2nJtZg4lX
.

29
. Thomas, June, “Don't Be a Wife: I'm a Lesbian and I'm Never Getting Married. Why Are You?”
Slate.com
, November 2012.

30
. Goldman, Emma,
Anarchism and Other Essays
, 233–245.

31
. Issenberg, Sasha, “With These Words,”
New York,
July 27, 2012.

32
. Walsh, Susan, “The Chances of Divorce May Be Much Lower Than You Think,”
Hooking Up Smart
, June 13, 2012,
http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2012/06/13/relationshipstrategies/your-chances-of-divorce-may-be-much-lower-than-you-think/
.

33
. Angier, Natalie, “The Changing American Family,”
The New York Times
, November 26, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html
.

34
. North, Anna, “Hanna Rosin: Hookup Culture is Changing,”
Salon.com
, September 1, 2013,
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/01/hanna_rosin_hookup_culture_is_changing/
.

35
. Lewin, Tamar, “Census Finds Single Mothers and Live-In Partners,”
The New York Times
, November 5, 2010.

36
. Stevenson, Betsey and Justin Wolfers, “Valentine's Day and the Economics of Love,”
Bloomberg View
, February 13, 2013,
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-02-13/valentine-s-day-and-the-economics-of-love
.

37
. Rudder, Christian, “How Your Race Affects The Messages You Get,”
Ok Trends Dating Research
,
okcupid.com
, October 5, 2009,
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
.

38
. Faludi,
Backlash,
1.

39
. Harris, Tami Winfrey, “Marriage Is Like Kitchenware and It Doesn't Matter What Men Want,”
Clutch
, February, 2013.
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/02/marriage-is-like-kitchenware-and-it-doesnt-matter-what-men-want/
.

40
. “Real Talk: Tyrese Says You Need a Man,”
Essence.com
,
November 17, 2011.

41
. Andrews, Helena, “Setting the Record Straight,”
Marie Claire,
April 12, 2012,
http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/advice/a7010/interracial-relationships/
.

42
. Aronowitz, Nona Willis, “I Wish I Wasn't Married: In Defense of Domestic Partnerships for Straight Couples,”
Good
, July 16, 2011,
http://www.good.is/posts/domestic-partnerships-should-be-an-alternative-to-marriage-for-all-couples
.

43
. 
Jane Austen's Letters
, 292.

Chapter Ten: Then Comes What?

1
. Garber, Megan, “The IVF Panic: All Hell Will Break Loose, Politically and Morally, All Over the World,”
The Atlantic
, June 25, 2012,
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-ivf-panic-all-hell-will-break-loose-politically-and-morally-all-over-the-world/258954/
.

2
. Davey, Melissa and Philip Ly, “Doctors Warn Women Not to Rely on IVF As More Give Birth in their 50s,”
Sydney Morning Herald,
June 15, 2013.

3
. Martin, Daniel, “Number of Babies Born to Women 45 and Older Trebles in Just Ten Years,:
Daily Mail,
January 27, 2012.

4
. Kluger, Jeffrey and Alice Park, “Frontiers of Fertility,”
Time
, May 30, 2013,
http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/30/frontiers-of-fertility/
.

5
. Ibid.

6
. “Common Myths About Having a Child Later in Life,” CBS News
,
August 7, 2012.

7
. “Births: Final Data for 2013,” National Vital Statistics report, Centers for Disease Control,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_01.pdf
.

8
. Livingston, Gretchen, and D'Vera Cohn, “The New Demography of Motherhood,” Pew Research Center, May 6, 2010,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/05/06/the-new-demography-of-american-motherhood/
.

9
. Grigoriadis, Vanessa, “Baby Panic,”
New York
, May 20, 2002,
http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/family/features/6030/index2.html
.

10
. Aronowitz, Nona Willis, “Mo' Children Mo' Problems,”
The American Prospect
, June 14, 2013,
http://prospect.org/article/mo-children-mo-problems
.

11
. Twenge, Jean, “How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?”
The Atlantic,
July 2013,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/
.

12
. Rothman, Michael, “Oprah Winfrey Reveals Why She Never Had Children,”
Good Morning America
, ABC News, December 12, 2013.

13
. Caldwell, Robin, “The Daughters of Dorothy Height,”
politic365.com
, April 21, 2010,
http://politic365.com/2010/04/21/the-daughters-of-dorothy-height/
.

14
. Interview with Kim Cattrall, “Woman's Hour,” BBC, September 14, 2015.

15
. Glenn, Cheryl,
Rhetoric Retold
, 162.

16
. Hadfield, Andrew,
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser,
192.

17
. Sandler, Lauren, “Having It All Without Having Children,”
Time
, August 12, 2013,
http://time.com/241/having-it-all-without-having-children/
.

18
. Abma, J., and G. Martinez, “Among Older Women in the United States: Trends and Profiles,”
Journal of Marriage and the Family
, Vol. 68, 2006, 1045–1056.

19
. Hoffman, Piper, “Be Jewish and Multiply? Perhaps Not,”
JTA.org
, November 20, 2013,
http://www.jta.org/2013/11/20/life-religion/be-jewish-and-multiply-perhaps-not#ixzz2nlqB7srr
. not#ixzz2nlqB7srr.

20
. Friedman, Ann, “The Real Reason Twentysomething Women Are Worried,”
New York
, December 17, 2013,
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/12/real-reason-20-something-women-are-worried.html
.

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