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“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, 1974); Susan Jacoby, “Forty-nine Million Singles Can’t All Be Right,” New York Times Magazine (Feb. 17, 1974); Gloria Emerson, “In a City of Crowds, So Many Lonely Women,” New York Times (Jan. 28, 1974); Wendy Shulman, “Singles Becoming More Stable Tenants,” New York Times (July 1974); Judy Klemesrud, “Bachelor’s Life: Things Aren’t Always Hunky-Dory in Paradise,” New York Times (May 3, 1974), “Margaret Mead Puts Single Life in Perspective,” New York Times (Jan. 25, 1974), and “They Tell How They Feel About Being Single Women,” New York Times (Dec. 1974); Robert J. Levin and Amy Levin, “Sexual Pleasure: The Surprising Preferences of 100,000 Women,” Redbook (Sept. 1975); “Men Bite Back,” New York Times (Aug. 1978), a response to Nan Robertson’s controversial essay “Single Women Over 30: Where Are the Men Worthy of Us?” (to quote from one typical male subject: “I am bored with women who claim all that liberation, self-realization, self-fulfillment pap and blame all the woes of women since Eve on me.”); John Kifner, “Hospital at Last Identifies Its Shopping Bag Lady,” New York Times (Jan. 10, 1979).

CHAPTER 7: TODAY’S MODERNE UNMARRIED—HER TIMES AND TRIALS

Nancy L. Peterson, Our Lives for Ourselves: Women Who Have Never Married (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981); Dr. Connell Cowan and Dr. Melvyn Kinder, Smart Women, Foolish Choices: Finding the Right Men, Avoiding the Wrong Ones (New York: Signet, 1986); Molly McKaughan, The Biological Clock (New York: Doubleday, 1987); Sylvia Ann Hewlett, A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women’s Liberation in America (New York: Warner Books, 1987); Peter J. Stein, Single Life: Unmarried Adults in Social Con text (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981); Barbara Levy Simon, Never Married Women (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987); Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips for Girls (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993).

The terrorizing Yale/Harvard study that so inaccurately predicted my life’s out come is best dissected in Susan Faludi’s still-brilliant Backlash (New York: Crown, 1991). Two of the hundreds of paralyzing “You lose!” documents: Eloise Salholz et al., “Too Late for Prince Charming,” from the cover story “The Marriage Crunch,” Newsweek, June 2, 1986; Barbara Lovenheim, Beating the Marriage Odds: When You Are Smart, Single and Over 35 (New York: William Morrow, 1989).

Marcelle Clements, The Improvised Woman: Reinventing Single Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998); Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions (New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 1991); Lee Reilly, Women Living Singly (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996); on hypochondria, the only documented disease of the unwed, Susan Baur, Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

Modern conduct guides in all earnestness:

Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, The Rules: Time Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right (New York: Warner, 1995).

Modern conduct guides with attitude and irony:

Cynthia Rowley and Ilene Rosenzweig, Swell: A Girl’s Guide to the Good Life (New York: Warner, 1999).

Periodicals—1980s/1990s–present:

Christine Doudna with Fern McBride, “Where Are the Men for the Women at the Top?” Savvy (Feb. 1980); Peter Davis, “The $100,000 a Year Woman,” Esquire special issue on women (June 1984). The author, in correspondence with editor, searches for a New Type who earns more than the average man—what is that like? What is she like? He finds her. Somehow convinces her to let him follow her through life for several months, and to interview her bosses, colleagues, ex-husband. She takes him on adriving trip with her parents, and gives him access to her diary; she comes off after all this exhaustive day-in-the-life attempt at finding “new pathos” as a demanding, difficult but truly remarkable, memorable person; Janice Harayda “Unwed Women Needn