Companion (Nov. 1946); George Lawton, “Proof That She Is the Stronger Sex,” New York Times Magazine (Dec. 12, 1948); “The Unwilling Virgins,” Es quire (May 1949); “The High Cost of Dating,” Ladies’ Home Journal (Sept. 1949).
Advice/conduct guides:
Steven Hart and Lucy Brown, How to Get Your Man and Hold Him (New York: Dover, 1944); Cora Carle, How to Get a Husband (New York: Hedgehog Press, 1949); Jean and Gene Berger, Win Your Man and Keep Him (Chicago: Windsor Press, 1948); Judson T. and Mary G. Landis, Building a Successful Marriage (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1948).
On the emergence of bobby-soxers, see This Fabulous Century: 1940–50 (New York: Time-Life, 1969).
CHAPTER 5: THE SECRET SINGLE
Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1953); David Reisman, The Lonely Crowd, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964); C. Wright Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951); Mirra Komarovsky, Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Dilemmas (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953); Lawrence and Mary Frank, How to Be a Woman (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954); Norman Hamilton, How to Woo and Keep Your Man (New York: William Fredericks, 1955); Robert O. Blood, Anticipating Your Marriage, the classic marriage text (New York: Free Press, 1957); Nicholas Drake, The Fifties in VOGUE (New York: Henry Holt, 1987); Rona Jaffe, The Best of Every thing (1958; New York: Avon, 1976); Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Young Woman’s Coming of Age in the Beat Generation (New York: Washington Square, 1983); Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955); Winnie Dienes, Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up in the 1950s (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992); J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961).
Periodicals:
“What You Should Know About Women, Even if You’re a Woman,” Collier’s (Nov. 1951); “No Right Age for a Girl to Marry,” New York Times (Oct. 19, 1952); Patty DeRoulf, “Must Bachelor Girls Be Immoral?” Coronet (Feb. 9, 1952); “Her First Date,” Look, (Dec. 1953); Juliet Tree, “When a Girl Lives Alone,” Good Housekeeping (Mar. 1953); “Life Calls on Seven Spinsters,” Life (June 8, 1953), in which Life went out and found spinsters as it might earlier have found the Dionne quints (seven sisters, thirty-eight to fifty-one, all wait on Dad and dress alike—quirky Mousketeer sensibility or psychopathology?); “How to Be Marriageable,” Ladies’ Home Journal (Mar. 1954); James A. Skardon, “Room, Board and Romance,” a series on new coed board inghouses in San Francisco, New York Herald Tribune (Oct. 20, 1954); “Is Marriage the Trap?” Mademoiselle (Dec. 1955); Anita Colby, “In Defense of the Single Woman,” Look (Nov. 29, 1955); “The Date Line,” Good Housekeeping (Oct. 1956); “Some Persons Should Stay Single,” Science Digest (May 1956); Life Magazine Special Issue on “The American Woman,” Life (Dec. 24, 1956); Polly Weaver, “What’s Wrong with Ambition?” Mademoiselle (Sept. 1956); “Will Success Spoil American Women?” New York Times Magazine (Nov. 10, 1957); Gael Greene, “Lone Women,” series, New York Post (Nov. 18–Dec. 1, 1957); Earl Ubell, “Pressure and Tension Beset the Lone Woman,” New York Herald Tribune (Dec. 6, 1957); James H. S. Brossard, “The Engagement Ring: A Changing Symbol” New York Times Magazine (July 14, 1958); Gloria Emerson, “The Lives of a New York Career Girl” Holiday (May 1958); “If You Don’t Go Steady, You’re Different,” Ladies’ Home Journal (Dec. 1959); “Bachelor Girls—They Play by Their Own Rules,” five-part series, New York Daily News (Apr. 1959).
Novels:
Gail Parent, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York; (New York: Putnam, 1972) Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975); Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (1973; New York: NAL, 1995); Mary Gordon, Final Payments (New York: Ballantine, 1978).
CHAPTER 6: THE SWINGING SINGLE
Books:
Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard Geiss/Random House, 1962); Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963; New York: Dell, 1973); Charles Abrams, The City Is the Frontier (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965); Joan Didion, Something Toward Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968); Howard Bahr and Gerald Garrett, Women Alone: The Disaffiliation of Urban Females (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1976); Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976); Jean Baker Miller, Toward A New Psychology of Women (Boston: Beacon Books, 1979).
Periodicals:
Joan Didion, “The Great Reprieve,” Mademoiselle (June 1960); “Do Women Provoke Sex Attack?” Cosmopolitan (Mar. 1960); “The Non-Woman, A Manhattan Enigma, Cosmopolitan (Mar. 1960); Sylvia Porter, “Women Alone,” New York Post (Sept. 13, 1960); Carol Taylor, “East Side, West Side, They Flock to New York for Job, Dream, Dream Man,” New York World-Telegram (Jan. 3, 1960); “Go West Young Woman if You Wish to Wed,” New York Herald Tribune (May 10, 1961); Phyllis Rosenteur, “Unwed Woman a Likely Cynic,” (Newsweek, book excerpt, May 1962); Gloria Steinem, “The Moral Disarmament of Betty Co-ed,” Esquire (Sept. 1962); “How Nice to Be a Pretty Girl in Washington, D.C.,” Life (Mar. 23, 1962); Marion K. Sanders, “The Case of the Vanishing Spinster,” New York Times Magazine (Sept. 22, 1963); “Two Girls Murdered in E. 88th St. Flat,” New York Times, (Aug. 29, 1963); Nan Robertson, “Where the Boys Are Not: At the Barbizon,” New York Times (Oct. 19, 1963); on Kitty Genovese, Loudon Wainwright, “The Dying Girl That Nobody Helped,” Life (Apr. 10, 1964); Sylvia Porter, “Girls Without Jobs,” New York Post (Mar. 25, 1965); Nina McCain, “New York and the Single Girl!” New York World-Telegram (Dec. 14, 1965); “Cities and the Single Girl,” Newsweek (Nov. 15, 1965); “Students in the Free Sex Movement,” Time (Mar. 11, 1966); Judith Viorst and Dorothy Gilliam, “Washington and the Single Girl,” Washington Post (June 22, 1966); “Where the Singles Are!” Newsweek (Sept. 26, 1966); Douglas Sefton, “The Girl Ghetto: East Side, West Side, Gals Buoying It Up on Broads-way,” New York Daily News (May 10, 1967); “New Rules for the Singles Game,” Life (Aug. 18, 1967); “The Pleasures and Pain of the Single Life,” Time (Sept. 15, 1967); Jean Baer, “The Single Girl in the City,” New York Post (Sept. 21, 1968); Shelby Coffey III, “Single Style Yesterday and Today,”’ Washington Post (Jan. 14, 1968); Christina Mirk, “Mingle but Stay Single!” Sunday Daily News (Mar. 23, 1969); “The Politics of Sex: Who’s Come a Long Way, Baby?” Time. (Aug. 31, 1970); Jon Nordheimer, “Vacation and the Single Girl: Tireless Pursuit of a Dream,” New York Times (July 29, 1970); “A Very Nice Kind of Ski Bum,” Life pictorial on single girls, living together in Aspen (Mar. 8, 1971); “Gloria Steinem: A Liberated Woman Despite Beauty, Chic and Success” Newsweek (Aug. 16, 1971); see also “The Thinking Man’s Jean Shrimpton,” Time (Jan. 3, 1969); Judy Klemesrud, “Single Women Against a Dangerous City,” New York Times (Jan. 12, 1973); Grace Lichtenstein, “Slain Woman’s Neighbors Express Both Horror and Detachment,” New York Times (Oct. 25, 1973); Leslie Maitland, “The Singles Scene Has Sordid Side,” New York Times (Nov. 1,
