Susan Swartz, The juicy tomatoes guide to Ripe Living after 50.
Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publishers, 2006: 72 - 74
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One: no longer the loneliest number
By Joshua Glenn, August 28, 2005, © 2005 - The Boston Globe
IN THE mid-1990s, E. Kay Trimberger, a sociologist at Sonoma State
University, interviewed a diverse group of some 50 women between the
ages of 30 and 60 in order to study the means by which women might
liberate themselves, as she puts it, ''from the prevailing cultural
notion that happiness can only be found as part of a couple." None of
her interviewees, however, had managed to do so. But when she recently
reinterviewed 27 never-married (or "ever-single") women from that
earlier study, she discovered that most of them had since found
emotional satisfaction, sexual fulfillment, and companionship outside
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Single women pioneering creative lifestyles.
Interview with Barbara Payne of SWWAN(Single Working Women's Affiliate Network, August 17, 2008.
Single women today are pioneers--looking beyond traditional forms and breaking new ground to find ways to incorporate intimacy, connections with younger generations, friendship, sensuality, and so on into our lives.
Living single
By Rachel Safier, Salon.com, December 14, 2005
Sociologist E. Kay Trimberger is "the new single woman" referred to in
the title of her new book. Successful in her career, surrounded by
friends and family, Trimberger is not depressed by the fact that her
life doesn't include a partner. A never-married Californian with a
24-year-old son she adopted when he was a newborn, she's the poster
girl for her cause -- living single contentedly.
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Interviewed on "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow," June 19, 2007 - KUAR Public Radio, Little Rock, Ar. Program on Being Single.
Interviewed on "The Quality of Life," 9-10 a.m., February 13, 2007 on KVPR-FM 89.3, Fresno & KPRX-FM 89.1, Bakersfield.
GreenStone Media's "Lisa Birnbach Show" on August 2, 2006.
Corus Radio Network, based in Winnipeg, Canada. Interview by Charles Adler - May 30, 2006.
The Morning Show, KPFA Berkeley 94.1 - November 28, 2005.
KWMR radio in Point Reyes, CA. Hour interview on Waves of Joy - November 23, 2005.
XM Satellite Radio, interviewed on The Pulse - October 17, 2005.
Against the Grain, KPFA Berkeley 94.1 - July 9, 2003.
New England Cable News TV, interviewed on "The Globe at Home," October 4, 2005
KRON4 -TV, San Francisco interviewed on News Weekend -August 21, 2005
