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bobby-soxers, 178
bohemians, 9, 74, 107–12, 114, 123, 127, 164, 173, 204
critics of, 109–10
in Greenwich Village, 108–9
lifestyle of, 110–11
in literature, 108–9, 110, 111–12
Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan), 185
“Boston marriages,” 29
Bow, Clara, 97, 131
Bowery boys (“b’hoys”), 72–73, 75, 140
Bowery gals (“g’hals”), 56–57, 70–75, 127, 229
Bowery Theater, 75
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 48
brank (gossip’s bridle), 38
Bread Givers, The (Yezierska), 67, 69
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 186
Breathless, 186
Bridget Jones’s Diary, 1, 256–58, 263
Brinkley, Nell, 113
Brontë, Charlotte, 20
Brooks, Louise, 97, 130–31
Brown, Helen Gurley, 212–13, 258
Bryant, Louise, 115
Bryn Mawr College, 26, 119
Buck, Pearl, 213
Bugbee, Emma, 154
Bundle of Letters to Busy Girls, A (Dodge), 96
Buntline, Ned, 77–78
But You Are Young (Lawrence), 141
Capote, Truman, 186
Cardozo, Caitlin, 253
Cassandra (Nightingale), 42
Cathy cartoon books, 247
censorship, film, 132
censuses, 19–21, 23, 58, 172, 188, 208–9, 214
Chambers-Schiller, Lee Virginia, 25–26
Chanel, Coco, 128
Chaplin, Eliza, 26
childbirth, 22, 31, 34
child-free lifestyle, 246–47, 261–62
Christmas in Connecticut, 249
Cinderella’s stepsisters, 18
City Is the Frontier, The (Abrams), 220
City of Women (Stansell), 58, 71, 89
Civil War, 23n, 28, 45, 46–47, 90, 114
Clements, Marcelle, 8
Cobbe, Frances Power, 53
Colby, Anita, 193
college education, 26, 32, 128–29, 143, 152, 165
in Depression era, 151, 161–63, 164, 178–79
of new women, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 127
in 1950s, 185, 188, 190
in 1960s, 210–11, 222, 223
communal living, 33–40, 53, 223, 224
abortion plots in, 38–39
feminist objections to, 37–38
in Greek mythology, 37
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
divorcèe 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