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, 142–43
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