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bohemians, 9, 74, 107–12, 114, 123, 127, 164, 173, 204

critics of, 109–10

in Greenwich Village, 108–9

lifestyle of, 110–11

in literature, 108–9, 110, 111–12

Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan), 185

“Boston marriages,” 29

Bow, Clara, 97, 131

Bowery boys (“b’hoys”), 72–73, 75, 140

Bowery gals (“g’hals”), 56–57, 70–75, 127, 229

Bowery Theater, 75

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 48

brank (gossip’s bridle), 38

Bread Givers, The (Yezierska), 67, 69

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 186

Breathless, 186

Bridget Jones’s Diary, 1, 256–58, 263

Brinkley, Nell, 113

Brontë, Charlotte, 20

Brooks, Louise, 97, 130–31

Brown, Helen Gurley, 212–13, 258

Bryant, Louise, 115

Bryn Mawr College, 26, 119

Buck, Pearl, 213

Bugbee, Emma, 154

Bundle of Letters to Busy Girls, A (Dodge), 96

Buntline, Ned, 77–78

But You Are Young (Lawrence), 141

Capote, Truman, 186

Cardozo, Caitlin, 253

Cassandra (Nightingale), 42

Cathy cartoon books, 247

censorship, film, 132

censuses, 19–21, 23, 58, 172, 188, 208–9, 214

Chambers-Schiller, Lee Virginia, 25–26

Chanel, Coco, 128

Chaplin, Eliza, 26

childbirth, 22, 31, 34

child-free lifestyle, 246–47, 261–62

Christmas in Connecticut, 249

Cinderella’s stepsisters, 18

City Is the Frontier, The (Abrams), 220

City of Women (Stansell), 58, 71, 89

Civil War, 23 n, 28, 45, 46–47, 90, 114

Clements, Marcelle, 8

Cobbe, Frances Power, 53

Colby, Anita, 193

college education, 26, 32, 128–29, 143, 152, 165

in Depression era, 151, 161–63, 164, 178–79

of new women, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 127

in 1950s, 185, 188, 190

in 1960s, 210–11, 222, 223

communal living, 33–40, 53, 223, 224

abortion plots in, 38–39

feminist objections to, 37–38

in Greek mythology, 37

as psychologically unhealthy, 39–40

religious, 34–35

in settlement houses, 35–37, 143

Company She Keeps, The (McCarthy), 151 n

conduct guides, 174–75, 200–202, 270

contraceptives, 109, 114, 152

condoms, 132, 151

diaphragms, 151, 211

laws against, 31

the Pill, 209–11

corn girls, 66

Cowen, Elise, 204, 205–6

Crawford, Joan, 130, 137, 140, 179, 197, 206

credit cards, 234

Crestell, Nicholas, 22

Crowe, Cameron, 106

Curie, Marie, 40

Damaged Goods, 123

“Dame, the,” 16

Dangerous, 157–58

Daughters of the American Revolution, 175

Davis, Bette, 13, 157–59, 177

Day, Benjamin, 63

Day, Doris, 199, 231

Days of Wine and Roses, 209

Dayton, Abram, 72–73, 75

Dempster, Carole, 131

department stores, 85, 99

see also shop girls, shoppies

depression, in married vs. single women, 250

Depression era, 150–64, 178

college education in, 151, 161–63, 164, 178–79

contraceptives in, 151, 152

female journalists in, 152–53, 154

films of, 153, 155, 156–59

heartless women in, 156–59, 172, 249

homeless women in, 154–56, 159

images of falling apart in, 163–64

job stealers in, 150, 152, 156

laws against married women working in, 150

literature in, 151, 153, 163–64

marriage rate in, 151

new women in, 159–60

office workers in, 152, 164

starvation in, 152

teenagers in, 160–61

young women’s frustration in, 159–64

diaphragms, 151, 211

Dickens, Charles, 17

Didion, Joan, 215–16

diets, fad, 136

diPrima, Diane, 204

divorce, 132, 209, 211, 212, 213, 235, 250

laws on, 27, 109

rates of, 116, 170, 175–76, 209

divorcèe paranoia, 176–77

Dodge, Grace, 96–97

Dodge, Mary, 28

domestic feminists, 27–28

domestic servants, 55, 58, 60–61, 73

Douglas, Ann, 127

Dreiser, Theodore, 53, 59

dress reform, 90–91, 114

Driscoll, Marjorie C., 154

drug addicts, 230, 241

Du Maurier, George, 110

Eastman, Crystal, 146–47

education, 25, 26–27, 28, 29, 32, 114, 133, 144

divorce rate and, 116

of shop girls, 97

see also college education

Eliot, Charles W., 116

Eliot, George, 48

Ellington, George, 77

Ellis, Havelock, 143

Emma (Austen), 48

Employments of Women (Penny), 61

Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 234

Equal Rights Amendment, 168

Ethan Frome (Wharton), 19–20

eugenics, 142

Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The (Smollett), 16–17

factory girls, 9, 56, 58–60, 61, 68, 73, 77, 79, 83, 85, 86, 87–88, 91, 94, 97, 129

Farmer’s Almanac (1869), 23

Farnham, Marynia, 172–73

Fates, 37

Fawcett, Edgar J., 65

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 209, 216

feminists, 8, 19 n, 33, 36, 37–38, 63, 93, 114, 116–17, 173, 236, 247

domestic, 27–28

of Heterodoxy, 117

politico-, 50

ridicule of, 117

second wave, 118

upper-class, 108

Femmes savantes, Les (Molière), 16

Fielding, Henry, 17–18

Final Payments (Gordon), 224

Finney, Ruth, 154

flappers, 126–28, 142, 164

in advertisements, 129

clothing of, 127, 138

as demographic group, 128

era embodied by, 128

in films, 130–33, 135, 137

hairstyles of, 127, 130–31, 136

“It” as trait of, 130–31

men driven into ministry by, 137

as morally deranged, 136–37

new products used by, 128

origin of term, 129–30

problematic mothers of, 133–34

purchasing power of, 128–29

reportage on, 133–36

second-stage, 136–37, 138

sexual behavior of, 131–33, 134–36

siren as replacement for, 137–38

spinsterism as threat to, 135–36

“treating” of, 135

unhealthy lifestyle attributed to, 136

Flexner, Eleanor, 130 n

Folks, The (Suckow), 108–9, 163–64

folliculitis, 136

Fonda, Jane, 218, 230

Foster, George, 65–66, 74, 75, 88

Franks, Lucinda, 230

Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 198

Frederick, Pauline, 156

free love, 35, 114, 141

Friedan, Betty, 184, 209, 216

friends, special, 28–30, 212–13, 262–63

Friendships of Women, The (Alger), 30

frigidity, 142, 144, 145, 172, 198

Fuller, Margaret, 30, 63

Garfield, 247

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 48

Genovese, Kitty, 228

G’Hals of New York, The (Buntline), 77–78

GI Bill, 186

Gibson, Charles Dana, 124

Gibson girls, 9, 124–26, 129

Gilliam, Dorothy, 226

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 34, 47–48, 115, 140, 160

Girl Terms Act, 204

Gissing, George, 48–50

Glyn, Elinor, 130

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 30

Gordon, Mary, 224

Graeae, 37

“Great Reprieve, The” (Didion), 215–16

Greek mythology, 37

Greeley, Horace, 63, 64

Greene, Gael, 194–96

Greenwich Village, 108–9, 117, 128, 163, 201, 205

Greer, Rebecca, 255

Gregg, W. R., 20–21

Griffith, D. W., 131

Grimké, Sarah, 2, 26

Group, The (McCarthy), 151

hair bows, huge, 119

hair dye, 136, 191–92

hairstyles, 232

banged, 69, 110

of flappers, 127, 130–31, 136

Haldane, Charlotte, 143

Hall, Stanley G., 116, 117–18

Hapgood, Hutchins, 63, 91