Single Women and Self Love--New Non-Fiction: I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married

It's a new and startling fact: Most American women spend more years of
their adult lives unmarried than married. Several factors contribute to
the trend. Women postpone marriage till an older age, they divorce more
frequently, and they choose to live with their partner rather than
marry. Motherhood, and even pregnancy, no longer require a significant
other. Women once saw living single as a transitional period-singles
marked time till they found "the one." But now marriage is the
transitional stage, connecting one unmarried period of life to another.
Black women reflect and impact this overall trend. Statistics show that
70 percent of African American women live without a man, despite
traditional expectations within the community.

In I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married, through lively and
revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, Nika Beamon
explores the challenges and issues affecting single black women who defy expectations. Written in the best tradition of women talking to women, and girlfriend to girlfriend, the book delivers tales of lessons learned, hard times and good times, told by women who found ways to achieve their dreams by defying convention. Their conclusion: Singlehood, whether temporary or permanent, and though often challenging, is a fulfilling state.

I Didn't Work This Hard is available for preorder on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com

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