Bachelor Girl_ The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century - Betsy Israel [151]
Farmer’s Almanac (1869), 23
Farnham, Marynia, 172–73
Fates, 37
Fawcett, Edgar J., 65
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 209, 216
feminists, 8, 19n, 33, 36, 37–38, 63, 93, 114, 116–17, 173, 236, 247
domestic, 27–28
of Heterodoxy, 117
politico-, 50
ridicule of, 117
second wave, 118
upper-class, 108
Femmes savantes, Les (Molière), 16
Fielding, Henry, 17–18
Final Payments (Gordon), 224
Finney, Ruth, 154
flappers, 126–28, 142, 164
in advertisements, 129
clothing of, 127, 138
as demographic group, 128
era embodied by, 128
in films, 130–33, 135, 137
hairstyles of, 127, 130–31, 136
“It” as trait of, 130–31
men driven into ministry by, 137
as morally deranged, 136–37
new products used by, 128
origin of term, 129–30
problematic mothers of, 133–34
purchasing power of, 128–29
reportage on, 133–36
second-stage, 136–37, 138
sexual behavior of, 131–33, 134–36
siren as replacement for, 137–38
spinsterism as threat to, 135–36
“treating” of, 135
unhealthy lifestyle attributed to, 136
Flexner, Eleanor, 130n
Folks, The (Suckow), 108–9, 163–64
folliculitis, 136
Fonda, Jane, 218, 230
Foster, George, 65–66, 74, 75, 88
Franks, Lucinda, 230
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 198
Frederick, Pauline, 156
free love, 35, 114, 141
Friedan, Betty, 184, 209, 216
friends, special, 28–30, 212–13, 262–63
Friendships of Women, The (Alger), 30
frigidity, 142, 144, 145, 172, 198
Fuller, Margaret, 30, 63
Garfield, 247
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 48
Genovese, Kitty, 228
G’Hals of New York, The (Buntline), 77–78
GI Bill, 186
Gibson, Charles Dana, 124
Gibson girls, 9, 124–26, 129
Gilliam, Dorothy, 226
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 34, 47–48, 115, 140, 160
Girl Terms Act, 204
Gissing, George, 48–50
Glyn, Elinor, 130
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 30
Gordon, Mary, 224
Graeae, 37
“Great Reprieve, The” (Didion), 215–16
Greek mythology, 37
Greeley, Horace, 63, 64
Greene, Gael, 194–96
Greenwich Village, 108–9, 117, 128, 163, 201, 205
Greer, Rebecca, 255
Gregg, W. R., 20–21
Griffith, D. W., 131
Grimké, Sarah, 2, 26
Group, The (McCarthy), 151
hair bows, huge, 119
hair dye, 136, 191–92
hairstyles, 232
banged, 69, 110
of flappers, 127, 130–31, 136
Haldane, Charlotte, 143
Hall, Stanley G., 116, 117–18
Hapgood, Hutchins, 63, 91
Harland, Marian, 51–52
Harlow, Jean, 141n
Hartmann, Susan, 169–70
Hawes, Elizabeth, 174
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 17, 38
heads of household, 208–9, 234–35, 239
Heape, Walter, 144
heartless women, 156–59, 172, 249
Herland (Gilman), 34
Herodotus, 37
Herrick, Genevieve Forbes, 154
Heterodoxy, 117
Hickok, Lorena, 154
Hoffe, Sally, 222, 223
Hoffert, Emily, 227–28
Hoffman, Alice, 176
Hoffman, Carol A., 229
Holding Their Own (Scharf), 160
holidays, 260–61
homeless women, 154–56, 159
Hospital Sketches (Alcott), 45
“Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York” (Robinson), 66
Howe, Marie Jenny, 117
Howells, William Dean, 64
How I Became Hettie Jones (Jones), 205
How to Be Happy While Single (Van Ever), 174–75
Humphreys, Mary Gay, 87–88, 96, 97, 105
Hungry Hearts (Yezierska), 67
Hutchins, Grace, 154
immigrants, 33, 36, 56–57, 62, 109, 122
immigrant working girls, 9, 56–84, 96–97
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,