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inversion, sexual, 143
“It,” 130–31
It (film), 97, 131, 132
Ivory Soap girl, 126, 129
Jacob A. Stamler, 105
Jaffe, Rona, 206
James, Henry, 23, 114
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 20
Janeway, Elizabeth, 39
Jarman, Rufus, 185
Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 53
Job, The (Lewis), 146
job stealers, 150, 152, 156
Johnson, Joyce Glassman, 200, 204, 205
Jones, Hettie Cohen, 204, 205
journalists, female, 152–53, 154
June Bride, 177
Kate and Leopold, 263–64
Katz, Susan Leslie, 16
Keller, Helen, 40
Kellogg, Elenore, 154
Kerouac, Jack, 181, 204, 205
Kinsey Report on Female Sexuality, 188
Kirk, Virginia, 134–35
Kitty Foyle (Morley), 55, 101–2, 103–4, 106–7
Klemesrud, Judy, 227, 229
Knudson, Kneith, 144
“Labor in New York” (Foster), 66
Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 48
Lambert, Eleanor, 191
Larcom, Lucy, 26, 31, 33
Lauder, Estée, 191
Laughlin, Clara E., 86
Lawrence, Josephine, 141
laws, 22n, 77, 120
abortion, 31, 109
on contraceptives, 31, 109
credit, 234
divorce, 27, 109
draft, 170
Girl Terms Act, 204
inheritance, 48
Mann Act, 124
marriage, 27
on married women holding jobs, 150
suffrage, 36, 45, 119, 126
on women’s smoking, 114–15
on workplace restrictions, 169
lesbians, 10–11, 28–29, 188, 249
mannish, 143
in sexology, 143–44, 145
WACs as, 169
LeSueur, Meridel, 155
Letters to a Business Girl (Saunders), 99–100, 102–3
Letter to Three Wives, A 177
Lewis, Sinclair, 146, 163
Liberty: A Better Husband (Chambers-Schiller), 25–26
Linton, Eliza Lynn, 38
living arrangements, 58, 66–67, 79–80, 89
all-girl hotels, 106–7, 194–96
latchkey, 104–7
in 1960s, 208–9, 212, 214, 220, 221, 223–24, 225
see also communal living
Long Day, The (Richardson), 55, 78–83, 84
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, 8, 230–31
love letters, female, 29–30
Lowell girls, 31, 83
Luce, Clare Booth, 39–40
Lundberg, Ferdinand, 172–73
McCarthy, Mary, 151
MacDonald, Dwight, 199
macho career woman, 248–49
MacLaine, Shirley, 185
Macpherson, Annie, 35
McPherson, Scott, 52–53
Main Street (Lewis), 146
Mann Act, 124
Mannequin, 140
mannish lesbians, 143
man shortages, 171, 172, 176, 183, 237–38, 250
Marjorie Morningstar, 186, 198
marriage, 2, 3, 102, 115–16, 129, 248
in British common law, 27
dangers of, 31, 89
Depression era and, 151, 161–62
domestic feminists’ view of, 27–28
as duty, 26–27
flappers and, 129, 135, 136, 137
of immigrant working girls, 62
inequality in, 28
maiden name retained in, 29, 74
male drinking and, 31
male preferences and, 115, 119
of new women, 115, 119
new women’s rejection of, 115–16, 117
as 1950s norm, 183–86, 187, 188, 189–96, 206, 209, 252
in 1960s, 208, 209, 211, 222, 223, 232
in 1970s, 234
in 1980s and 1990s, 250, 251–56
as oppressive institution, 27
in postwar period, 170–71, 175
rates of, 30, 116, 151, 184
sex in, 142, 145
shop girls and, 89, 97
single blessedness vs., 25–30, 31–32, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 45, 53
upper-class women and, 18–19
married working women, 150, 215, 247
Marvin’s Room (McPherson), 52–53
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The, 233–34, 258
Mead, Margaret, 191
Meehan, Diana, 227
Meet Millie, 197
Menehin, Thomas, 155
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 101, 115
Miller, Jean Baker, 239
Miller’s New York as It Is, 72
Millet, Kate, 237n
Mills, C. Wright, 103
Milton, John, 27
Minister’s Charge, The (Howells), 64
Minor Characters (Johnson), 200, 205
Miss America pageants, 132
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (Farnham and Lundberg), 172–73
Molière, 16
Moore, Colleen, 113, 130–31, 133
Morley, Christopher, 55, 101–102, 103–4, 107
Moskowitz, Belle, 121
murders, single girl, 227–31, 240–41
Murphy Brown, 248–49
Muses, 37
Muzzy, Aretemus B., 26
Nashoba commune, 35
neurotic husband hunters, 157, 172–75
conduct guides for, 174–75
as half a human unit, 173–74, 186
new dependency, 140–41, 150
new spinsters, 29, 138–47
families as financial drain on, 140–41
lifestyle of, 138–39
limitations of, 145–47
as socially pathetic, 145
see also sexology
new women, 9, 114–38
causes supported by, 159–60
college education of, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 127
criminal