Was the Single Woman Neglected by Second-Wave Feminism?

Second-wave feminism forgot the single woman. That's the argument made by Rachel Moran in an important law review paper. I doubt that the single women of the first wave would have anticipated that future.

Do you know about "bachelor girls" or the women who thought of their lives as "single blessedness"? They, along with Susan B. Anthony, were among the faces of single womanhood from the mid-1800s through the beginning of the next century. "Bachelor girls" were the young adults who were not marrying so young; instead they were enjoying life in the city first. The phrase "single blessedness" was not used ironically. Single women who pursued spiritual growth and moral action were seen as serving a higher calling than marriage (as Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller described in Liberty, A Better Husband.) Susan B. Anthony was, of course, one of the most famous single women who worked for women's right to vote, but the suffrage movement was powered by many other single women as well.

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