Bachelor Girl

as psychologically unhealthy, 39–40

religious, 34–35

in settlement houses, 35–37, 143

Company She Keeps, The (McCarthy), 151n

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

divorcee 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, 19n, 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 (Moliere), 16

Fielding, Henry, 17–18

Final Payments (Gordon), 224

Finney, Ruth, 154