Philobiblon Review, with Reader Responses
By Natalie Bennett, January 31, 2006
In part seeking answers for her own life -- she's a never-married woman who adopted a child on her own at age 40 -- Trimberger seeks to identify the steps, emotional and practical, they needed to take to become "happy". Read more...

New Book Empowers Single Women
By Stephanie Lam, October 5, 2005, © 2005 - The Daily Californian
Let's face it: Some people don't get married. Some people don't end up coupled like oxygen atoms in cute pairs for the rest of their lives. And as one visiting scholar at UC Berkeley insists, that is just as legitimate and acceptable a way of life. Read more...

Is living alone the new happy ending?
By Jennifer Moeller, September 27, 2005, © 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor
Could Cinderella have been happy if she had never met Prince Charming? Before reading E. Kay Trimberger's book, The New Single Woman, I wouldn't even have asked the question. Read more...

Going solo, but not alone
By Wendy Edelstein, September 14, 2005, © 2005 - UC Berkeley News
When Kay Trimberger realized in the early '90s that she would probably remain single for the rest of her days, she responded as any good sociologist would. She organized a study. Read more...

Dear diary: Bridget Jones had it all wrong
By Jane Ganahl, Sunday, September 11, 2005, © 2005 - SF Chronicle
Can you hear it? That grinding noise? It's the paradigm shifting ever so slightly for single women. You have to look closely to find the evidence -- amid shows like "The Bachelorette" and "Bridezillas" and news stories about so-called "runaway brides." But marriage may be becoming -- at least for women older than 35 -- an elective course in the school of life, no longer adamantly required. Read More...

Sociologist Kay Trimberger is Documenting a New Trend of Unmarried Women Who are Not Only Content, but Happy with their Singular Lives.
By Susan Swartz, February 29, 2004, © 2004 - The Press Democrat
Don't feel sorry for singles, and call off their worried parents and matchmaking friends. They're just fine, or at least they're doing better than most think, according to Kay Trimberger, a sociologist and Sonoma State University professor whose research into singleness has developed into a theory about the "new single woman." For rest of article go to the following web site and put in Singular Lives for 2004.

Amy Traver, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 35, #4, July 2006: 378 - 379.

L. Wolfer, review in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. June 2006, Vol. 43, # 10.

"Single - og stolt af det," ALT for damerne, May 10, 2006 (Danish women's magazine Everything for Women).

The Midwest Book Review, Review in The Women's Issues Shelf, April 2006.

Andi Zeisler, "Love and Marriage (or Not)," Women's Review of Books, January/February, 2006.

Jocelyn Kaye, "Single, Not Looking," The UWM Post, November 19, 2005.

Body & Soul Magazine. October 2005.

Sue Hutchinson, "Single women are learning life goes on without a mate," San Jose Mercury News, September 24, 2005.

Daphne Merkin, "Sex and the Solitary Woman," Elle Magazine, September 2005.

Suzanne w. Wood, Library Journal, August 2005.