Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this work, Marcelle Clements asks what it is like to be a modern single woman. She discusses this complex question, while at the same time celebrating the real lives of single American women. Between 1991 and 1998 Clements has asked over 100 women - young and old, never married, divorced and widowed, mothers and the childless - to talk to her about being single. She asked how they got there, whether they were sorry or glad and what their experiences were. They speak frankly about subjects such as power, status, money, class, family, sense of home, romance, love, sex, fears of old age and death, and the future of the gender. The result is a portrait of women whose lives defy easy categorization and break the stereotypes of the past.