Bachelor Girl_ The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century - Betsy Israel [155]
tampons, 128, 218
Tarbell, Ida, 50, 115, 117
Tarkington, Booth, 102
tea dances, 120–21
telephone operators, 103n, 152
Temple, Shirley, 178
Terrible Honesty (Douglas), 127
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 20, 48
Thomas, M. Carey, 26
Thompson, Bertha “Boxcar Bertha,” 154
Thompson, Dorothy, 146n
Three on a Match, 158–59
Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor, 111–12, 145
Totenberg, Nina, 219
Toward a New Psychology of Women (Miller), 239
Traffic in Souls, 122–23
“transient bureaus,” 154
T. R. Baskin, 231–32
“treating,” 70–71, 88, 94, 135
Triangle Shirtwaist fire, 60
Trilby (Du Maurier), 110, 125
Trollope, Anthony, 48, 262
Trowmart Inn, 105–7
Truman, Harry, 175
tuberculosis, risk of, 136
Types from City Streets (Hapgood), 91
Ugly Girl Papers, The (Power), 69
University of Michigan, 194, 211–12
upper-class women, 117, 124
clothing of, 74–75
department stores and, 85
as domestic employers, 60–61
feminist, 109
muddy hems of, 74, 90
“slumming” by, 93–94
as spinsters, 18–19
urban sketch, 63–64
Ursuline religious order, 34–35
Valentine’s Day, 260
Van de Warker, Ely, 142
Van Ever, Jean, 174–75
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 48
Viorst, Judith, 226
WACs (Women’s Army Corps), 168–69, 170
Wald, Lillian, 36
war brides, 171, 185
wartime jobs, 164–70
black women in, 166–67
in Civil War, 45, 46–47, 90
competence in, 167–68
for educated women, 165
in films, 167–68
number of, 165, 169
preparatory campaign for separation from, 168–69
propaganda for, 130n, 165–66
temporary nature of, 167, 168–70
WACs in, 168–69, 170
in World War I, 129, 130, 142–43
Wasserstein, Wendy, 40
Welter, Barbara, 27
Wharton, Edith, 19–20
“What About Alice?” (Cohen), 248
What Should We Do with Our Daughters? (Livermore), 142
“What’s Wrong with Ambition?” (Weaver), 189–90
Wheeton, Ellen “Nelly,” 34
Where Are My Children?, 38–39
white slavery, 122–24, 125
Who’s Who (1902), 116
“Why Women Don’t Marry” (Tompkins), 111–12, 145
widows, 172, 198–99, 209, 235
widows-manqué, 23n
Wilcox, Susanne, 115
Wilson, Edmund, 129–30
Wine of Youth, 132–33
witches, 17, 197
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 37–38
womanists, 109, 114
Women, The (Luce), 39–40
Women of New York, or Social Life in the Great City, The (Ellington), 77
Women of Steel, 166
Women’s Bureau, U.S., 147, 175
women’s colleges, 26, 114, 143
“women’s” jobs, 103, 150, 152, 170, 178
Women’s Moral Reform Society, 31
women’s movement, 208, 233, 234, 236, 251
see also feminists
Women Who Went to the Field, The (Barton), 47
Wonder Woman, 167
Woolf, Virginia, 110
Wordsworth, William, 17
Work-a-day Girl: A Study of Some Present-Day Conditions, The (Laughlin), 86
Working Girl, 101
World War I, 126, 127, 129, 130, 142–43
World War II, 146n, 164–70, 178
see also postwar period; wartime jobs
Wright, Fanny, 35
Wylie, Janet, 227–28
Wylie, Philip, 228
Wyman, Jane, 198–99
“yellowback” romance novels, 60
“Yellow Wallpaper, The” (Gilman), 47–48
Yezierska, Anzia, 66–67, 69
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 155
Ziegfeld Follies, 94
About the Author
BETSY ISRAEL is a journalist and former editor who has contributed to the New York Times, Elle, Rolling Stone, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, People, Mademoiselle, Vogue, New York, Spin, Playboy, and the Los Angeles Times, among many others. She is a former columnist for Glamour, US, and New York Woman, and was a contributing writer for Mirabella. She has written numerous screenplays and is the author of a memoir, Grown-Up Fast: A True Story of Teenage Life in Suburban America. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.
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Praise for Bachelor Girl
“Bachelor Girl is such a delectable read that it belies its stature as a profoundly important synthesis. It takes a witty and perceptive stance on the culture, but it’s also a prodigious journalistic investigation that disinters the droll and moving social history of the single woman in America.”
—Marcelle Clements, author of
The Improvised Woman: Single