Bachelor Girl

American style embraced by, 60, 66–69

assimilation of, 60, 67

banged hairstyles of, 69

beauty advice sought by, 68–69

Bowery gals, 56–57, 70–75, 127, 229

clothing of, 61, 67–68, 74–75

daily life of, 78–84

domestic servants, 55, 58, 60–61, 73

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

family homes of, 57–58, 66, 67, 75–76

fantasy names of, 10

in films, 66, 67

Irish, 55, 58, 60, 72–73

living quarters of, 58, 66–67, 79–80

male abusiveness risked by, 70–72

as moral calamity, 57

pay handed over by, 58, 70, 140

in penny press, 62–66

pidgin dialects of, 87–88

prostitution of, 58, 59, 74, 75, 78, 83, 94

salaries of, 76–77

strikes staged by, 59

“treating” of, 70–71

working conditions of, 58–61, 81

Improvised Woman, The (Clements), 8

Independent, 50, 104–5, 108, 115, 122

“Independent Woman and Other Lies, The” (Roiphe), 255–56

Internet, 244–45

intersexuality, 142–43

inversion, sexual, 143

“It,” 130–31

It (film), 97, 131, 132

Ivory Soap girl, 126, 129

Jacob A. Stamler, 105

Jaffe, Rona, 206

James, Henry, 23, 114

Jane Eyre (Bronte), 20

Janeway, Elizabeth, 39

Jarman, Rufus, 185

Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 53

Job, The (Lewis), 146

job stealers, 150, 152, 156

Johnson, Joyce Glassman, 200, 204, 205

Jones, Hettie Cohen, 204, 205

journalists, female, 152–53, 154

June Bride, 177

Kate and Leopold, 263–64

Katz, Susan Leslie, 16

Keller, Helen, 40

Kellogg, Elenore, 154

Kerouac, Jack, 181, 204, 205

Kinsey Report on Female Sexuality, 188

Kirk, Virginia, 134–35

Kitty Foyle (Morley), 55, 101–2, 103–4, 106–7

Klemesrud, Judy, 227, 229

Knudson, Kneith, 144

“Labor in New York” (Foster), 66

Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 48

Lambert, Eleanor, 191

Larcom, Lucy, 26, 31, 33

Lauder, Estee, 191

Laughlin, Clara E., 86

Lawrence, Josephine, 141

laws, 22n, 77, 120

abortion, 31, 109

on contraceptives, 31, 109

credit, 234

divorce, 27, 109

draft, 170

Girl Terms Act, 204

inheritance, 48

Mann Act, 124

marriage, 27

on married women holding jobs, 150

suffrage, 36, 45, 119, 126

on women’s smoking, 114–15

on workplace restrictions, 169

lesbians, 10–11, 28–29, 188, 249

mannish, 143

in sexology, 143–44, 145

WACs as, 169

LeSueur, Meridel, 155

Letters to a Business Girl (Saunders), 99–100, 102–3

Letter to Three Wives, A 177

Lewis, Sinclair, 146, 163

Liberty: A Better Husband (Chambers-Schiller), 25–26

Linton, Eliza Lynn, 38

living arrangements, 58, 66–67, 79–80, 89

all-girl hotels, 106–7, 194–96

latchkey, 104–7

in 1960s, 208–9, 212, 214, 220, 221, 223–24, 225

see also communal living

Long Day, The (Richardson), 55, 78–83, 84

Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 8, 230–31

love letters, female, 29–30

Lowell girls, 31, 83

Luce, Clare Booth, 39–40

Lundberg, Ferdinand, 172–73

McCarthy, Mary, 151