Bachelor Girl

Pill, the, 209–11

Playboy, 192, 193, 243–44

Polykoff, Shirley, 191–92

Pope, Alexander, 17

Porter, Sylvia, 213–14

postwar period, 169–79

assertive women in, 171, 185

bobby-soxers in, 178

college class of 1934 in, 178–79

divorce rate in, 170, 175–76

divorcee paranoia in, 176–77

films in, 177–78, 179

GI Bill in, 186

majority gender in, 171–72

man shortage in, 171, 172, 176, 183

workforce in, 169–70

see also neurotic husband hunters

Power, Susan C., 69

Private Secretary, 197

prostitutes, prostitution, 31, 32, 105, 107, 130, 168, 204

earnings of, 77

of immigrant working girls, 58, 59, 74, 75–78, 83, 94

as vagrancy (loitering), 76, 106

white slavery and, 122–24

purchase brides, 20

Quaaludes, 241

Quinn, Roseanne, 230

“race suicide,” 33, 109–10, 111, 116, 142

rackets, 88–89, 92, 93, 96, 103, 107, 120, 124

radio soap operas, 178

Rainy Day Club, 90

rape, 70–71, 155, 241

Rear Window, 193

Reisman, David, 179

Rhys, Jean, 164

Richardson, Dorothy, 55, 78–83, 84, 194

Roberts, Julia, 40

Robinson, Grace, 154

Robinson, Solon, 66

Robles, Richard, 227–28

Roiphe, Katie, 255–56

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 36, 40, 154, 155, 159

Roosevelt, Theodore, 33, 109, 116

Rosenteur, Phyllis, 211

Rosie the Riveter, 166, 167

rubbering, 88, 91

Rules, The (Fein and Schneider), 258–59

Sagan, Francoise, 185–86

Salem witch trials, 17, 21

Salinger, J. D., 198

Sands, Alma, 71–72

Sanger, Margaret, 115

Sarmiento, Domingo, 29

Saunders, Florence Wenderoth, 99–100, 102–3

Sawyer, Lanah, 70–71

Sayers, Dorothy L., 17

Scharf, Lois, 160

Scudder, Vida, 26

Seberg, Jean, 186

Sedgwick, Catherine M., 27

settlement houses, 35–37, 143

Seventh Heaven (Hoffman), 176

Sex and the City, 1, 262–63

Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 212

sexology, 111, 117–18, 141–45, 156

frigidity in, 142, 144, 145, 172, 198

lesbianism in, 143–44, 145

typology of, 142–43

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (Parent), 231

shop girls, shoppies, 9, 84–98, 103, 127, 128, 232

“blue Mondays” of, 91

clothing of, 85–86, 89–91

controlled facial expressions of, 86, 94–95

critics of, 90–91

dances attended by, 88–89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96

dress reform desired by, 90–91

education of, 97

“fairy days” of, 92, 94

in films, 97

free-time activities of, 88–89, 95–96

living quarters of, 89, 105

male sales clerks vs., 86

nascent feminism of, 93

newsletters of, 92–93

salaries of, 86

store social clubs formed by, 92, 94

teaching profession entered by, 97

“treating” of, 88, 94

upper-class women vs., 93–94

working conditions of, 85–88, 91, 92, 94–95

youth of, 91–92

shopping bag ladies, 241

Showalter, Elaine, 39

Show Boat, 23n

single blessedness, 25–48, 53, 114

exemplars of, 40–48

marriage proposals rejected in, 26, 31–32

public taunts endured in, 32–33

special friends in, 28–30