CHAPTER 7: TODAY’S MODERNE UNMARRIED—HER TIMES AND TRIALS
Nancy L. Peterson, Our Lives for Ourselves: Women Who Have Never Married (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981); Dr. Connell Cowan and Dr. Melvyn Kinder, Smart Women, Foolish Choices: Finding the Right Men, Avoiding the Wrong Ones (New York: Signet, 1986); Molly McKaughan, The Biological Clock (New York: Doubleday, 1987); Sylvia Ann Hewlett, A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women’s Liberation in America (New York: Warner Books, 1987); Peter J. Stein, Single Life: Unmarried Adults in Social Con text (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981); Barbara Levy Simon, Never Married Women (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987); Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips for Girls (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993).
The terrorizing Yale/Harvard study that so inaccurately predicted my life’s out come is best dissected in Susan Faludi’s still-brilliant Backlash (New York: Crown, 1991). Two of the hundreds of paralyzing “You lose!” documents: Eloise Salholz et al., “Too Late for Prince Charming,” from the cover story “The Marriage Crunch,” Newsweek, June 2, 1986; Barbara Lovenheim, Beating the Marriage Odds: When You Are Smart, Single and Over 35 (New York: William Morrow, 1989).
Marcelle Clements, The Improvised Woman: Reinventing Single Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998); Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions (New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 1991); Lee Reilly, Women Living Singly (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996); on hypochondria, the only documented disease of the unwed, Susan Baur, Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
Modern conduct guides in all earnestness:
Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, The Rules: Time Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right (New York: Warner, 1995).
Modern conduct guides with attitude and irony:
Cynthia Rowley and Ilene Rosenzweig, Swelclass="underline" A Girl’s Guide to the Good Life (New York: Warner, 1999).
Periodicals—1980s/1990s–present:
Christine Doudna with Fern McBride, “Where Are the Men for the Women at the Top?” Savvy (Feb. 1980); Peter Davis, “The $100,000 a Year Woman,” Esquire special issue on women (June 1984). The author, in correspondence with editor, searches for a New Type who earns more than the average man—what is that like? What is she like? He finds her. Somehow convinces her to let him follow her through life for several months, and to interview her bosses, colleagues, ex-husband. She takes him on adriving trip with her parents, and gives him access to her diary; she comes off after all this exhaustive day-in-the-life attempt at finding “new pathos” as a demanding, difficult but truly remarkable, memorable person; Janice Harayda “Unwed Women Needn’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).
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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