Other Writings on Women and Gender

Other Writings about Singleness

"Single Women,"  Sociologists for Women in Society Fact Sheet with Bella DePaulo..  Winter 2008, 

"Reluctant Revolutionaries," review essay on three books on single mothers. Women's Review of Books, Nov/Dec 2007

Bella DePaulo, Rachel F. Moran & E. Kay Trimberger, "Making Room for Singles in Teaching and Research," Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2007, P. B44-45.

"Farther Beyond the 'M' Word," Dissent Magazine, Spring 2007 (April)

With Bella DePaulo, "Single Americans Are Hardly Flying Solo,"
San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2007.

"Can a Single Woman Really Be Happy Without a Soul Mate?" Single State of the Union. Diane Mapes (ed.). Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, Spring, 2007.

Blossoming in middle age/It's not all about sex for women from 45 to 59
E. Kay Trimberger, Sunday, April 23, 2006 (SF Chronicle)

Syllabus for a course on Single Women: Social, Psychological and Historical Perspectives in The Sociology of Gender. Syllabi and Instructional Materials, 5th. edition. Edited by Amy Blackstone and Betsy Lucal. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2002.

"Life and the Single Woman," The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, March 10, 2001.

Blog Posts

"Network of Friends: A Pillar for Single Women, " Smart Now,  11/08.

 "Single Women in India: Rarer, Riskier, and Happier Than in the U.S."    
Al ternatives to Marriage Project, Newsletter, 9/08

"Single Women in India: A Conversation with Kay Trimberger,"  Psychology Today Blogs,  10/15/08.

"Sex, Sensuality and the Mid-Life Single Woman,"  Smart Now, 7/08
"Single Women Over Forty Create the Good Life," Single Choice, June 3, 2008.

"Single Paths to the Good Life,"  Smart Now, May 30,2008

"Single Women and the U.S. Women's Movement : Insights from India," : Beacon Broadside, March 27, 2008   and Guernica Magazine , April 7, 2008

"Single at the Holidays: Not Alone, but a Different Kind of Togetherness." Beacon Broadside, November 20, 2007

Academic Books and Articles

"Improving Our Writing as a Prerequisite for Public Sociology," SWS, Network News, Spring 2007, p. 12

My research included in Council on Contemorary Families, May 2007 - Unconventional Wisdom A Survey Of Research And Clinical Findings. Edited by Joshua Coleman, And Stephanie Coontz.

Intimate Warriors: Writings from a Modern Marriage, 1899 -1944. Edited with an Introduction by Ellen Kay Trimberger. New York, N.Y., The Feminist Press, 1991

"Friendship Networks and Care," Working Paper # 31, Center for Working Families, U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2001.

"Heterosexuality" in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Edited by Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998: 255..

"The New Woman and the New Sexuality: Mabel Dodge and Neith Boyce," in the Cultural Moment, 1915. Edited by Lois Rudnick & Adele Heller. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

"Feminism, Men and Modern Love: Greenwich Village, 1900-1925," in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. Edited by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983: 131-152.

"Women in the Old and New Left: The Evolution of a Politics of Personal Life," Feminist Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall, 1979), 432-461.

Teaching Materials

"Community Action in a Course on Feminist Organizations," Transformations: A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship. Vol. 8, #1, Spring 1997: 91-113.

Syllabus for a course on Gender, Sexuality and Family in The Sociology of Sex and Gender. Syllabi and Instructional Materials, 3rd edition. Edited by Virginia Powell. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 1990.

Syllabus for a course on Race, Sex and Class in Toward An Inclusive Sociology: Race Class and Gender in The Sociology Curriculum, Edited by Patricia Hill Collins and Margaret Andersen. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 1988.

Journalistic Articles

"Paid Family Leave: Everyone Wins," San Jose Mercury News, Friday, June 21, 2002.

Hitting the Road After Jonah," a film review of Alain Turner's Mesidor. In These Times, July 15-28, 1981.

"Defending the Right to Abortion as a Top Priority of the Left," with Mary P. Ryan and Judy Stacey. In These Times, July 4-10, 1979.

Reviews and Review Essays

"Ones of a Kind," a review of Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century by Betsy Israel in Women's Review of Books, Vol. XX, #3, December 2002.

"For Better or Worse," a review of Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation," by Nancy Cott in Women's Review of Books, Vol. XVIII, #7, April, 2001, p. 21.

Review of Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff in PACER Newsletter (Post Adoption Center for Education & Research), summer 1997: 4-5.

"Family Matters," a review of The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy. The Nation,, June 19, 1995: 896-898.

A review of Robert Bannister, Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 30, July 1994: 252-54.

A review of Arlene Skolnick, Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty for The Women's Review of Books, May, 1992.

A review of Stacey Oliker, Best Friends & Marriage for The Women's Review of Books, February, 1990.

"Family Feud," an essay reviewing Contemporary Marriage edited by Kingsley Davis; Commuter Marriage: Living Together Apart by Fairlee Winfield; Commuter Marriage by Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Gross; Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood by Kathleen Gerson: and Role-Sharing Marriage by Audrey Smith and William Reid in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. 1V, #5 (Feb.1987); 16-17.

A review of Women in Culture and Politics. Edited by Judith Friedlander, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Carrol Smith-Rosenberg for Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 6 #6 (1987) 782.

A review of The Other Woman: Stories of Two Women and A Man and Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a Generation. Edited by Susan Koppelman for Resources For American Literary Study, Vol. XV1, #1-2, (1986-89); 125-126.

A review of Rebel Pen: The Writings of Mary Heaton Vorse. Edited by Dee Garrison for In These Times. October, 1986.

A review of Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology for Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 1 (January, 1986); 106 - 107.

A review of Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856 - 1905, for The Harvard Education Review. Vol. 55, No. 3 (August, 1985), 363 - 365.

"Escape from Domesticity," an essay reviewing Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd edited by Polly Longsworth; and Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Diaries and Letters, edited by Barbara Strachey and Jayne Samuels in The Women's Review of Books. Vol. 2, No. 8 (May, 1985), 16-18.

A review of Lois P. Rudnick, Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman. New Worlds for In These Times, February 13 - 19, 1985, p. 13.

"Middletown Revisited: From Class Politics to Politics of the Family," a review essay of Middletown Families by Theodore Caplow et al. Theory and Society, 13, 1984, 129-147.