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’t—and Don’t—Despair,” Wall Street Journal (June 27, 1986); Claudia Wallis, “Women Face the ’90s” Time (cover, Dec. 4, 1989); Richard Cohen, “What About Alice?” Washington Post, (July 28, 1991); David R. Williams, David T. Takeuchi, Russell K. Adair, “Marital Status and Psychiatric Disorders Among Blacks and Whites,” Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, vol. 33 (June 1992); “Advance Report of Final Divorce Statistics, 1989 and 1990” (The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995); Torri Minton, “Road to Modern Romance Is Paved with Potholes,” San Francisco Chronicle (Feb. 12, 1993); Florence King, “Spinsterhood Is Powerful,” National Review (July 19, 1993); John Tierney, “Picky, Picky, Picky,” New York Times Magazine (Feb. 1995); Cynthia Heimel, “Solo Contendre,” Playboy (Feb. 1995); Judy Abel, “Sisters: The New Generation Gap: Twentysomethings Are Choosing Mom’s Family Values and Not Their Siblings’ Career Paths,” New York Post (Aug. 6, 1996); Katie Roiphe, “The In dependent Woman (and Other Lies)” Esquire (Feb. 1997); “Why Marriage Is Hot Again,” special section, Redbook (Sept. 24, 1997); “American Marriage Today,” special supplement, Brides Magazine: The Heart of the Bridal Market (Sept. 26, 1997); Lois Smith Brady, “Ready to Propose? Make it Short, Sweet and Real,” New York Times (Oct. 1997); Elizabeth Cohen, “They Don’t Want Kids: Why Women Are Opting out of Motherhood” (with a quiz: “Should You Become a Mom?”) (May 14, 1998); Sarah Bernard, “Early to Wed,” New York magazine (June 16, 1997); Jim Yardley “Going on Full Alert for a Dream Dress,” New York Times (Feb. 1, 1998), on the frenzy at Kleinfeld’s, the famed Brooklyn wedding gown emporium.

Novels

Gail Parent, A Sign of the Eighties (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987); Margaret Diehl, Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988); Alice Hoffman, Seventh Heaven (New York: Ballantine, 1990); Lorrie Moore, Like Life (New York: Knopf, 1990) and Birds of America (New York: Knopf, 1998); Susannah Moore, In the Cut (New York: Knopf, 1995); Can dace Bushnell, Sex and the City, collected essays (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996); Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary (New York, MacMillan, 1998).

SEARCHABLE TERMS

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“Aborting Matron, The,” 39n

abortions, 31, 38–39, 101, 109, 114, 132, 151, 202

Abrams, Charles, 220

Abrams, Sophie, 68

actresses, 93–94, 125, 152

in flapper films, 130–33, 137

in wartime films, 167, 168

Addams, Jane, 36, 115, 116

Ade, George, 114

adoptions, 202, 235

advertising, 125–26, 183, 196, 267

beauty, 191–93

classified, gender segregation of, 152, 178, 229

flappers in, 129

of hair dye, 191–92

in 1960s, 218

WACs in, 169

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (Rhys), 8, 164

Afternoon of Unmarried Life, The (Penny), 24

Alcott, Bronson, 34, 37, 44

Alcott, Louisa May, 26, 33–34, 37, 47, 270

life of, 40, 44–45

Alger, William R., 30

Alice Adams (Tarkington), 102

All That Heaven Allows, 198–99

Ally McBeal, 1, 256–57, 258, 263

Amazons, 37

“American Woman, Her Changing Role: Worker, Homemaker, Citizen, The” 175

Ann Vickers (Lewis), 163

Anthony, Susan B., 26, 31, 33, 45, 100

Anything but Love (Hawes), 174

Arbuckle, John, 105

Auerbach, Nina, 2

Austen, Jane, 24, 32, 48

Autumn Leaves, 179

Baby Boom, 249

baby brides, 251–56, 258

Baby Face, 157

bachelor girls, 107–12, 114, 119, 127

see also bohemians Baez, Joan, 218

Baker, Russell, 238

Banning, Margaret Culkin, 147

Barbizon Hotel, 106–7, 194–96, 221

Barnard College, 152

Barton, Clara, 33, 163, 270

life of, 40, 46–47

Barton, Mary, 33

Beat generation, 204–6

Bedlow, Harry, 70–71

bedrest, 162

Beecher, Catherine, 27–28, 61

Benjamin, Walter, 85

Bennett, James Gordon, 63

Bernard, Sara, 253

Best of Everything, The (Jaffe), 206

Bewitched, 17, 218

black women, 166–67, 226

Blondell,