Power, Susan C., 69
Private Secretary, 197
prostitutes, prostitution, 31, 32, 105, 107, 130, 168, 204
earnings of, 77
of immigrant working girls, 58, 59, 74, 75–78, 83, 94
as vagrancy (loitering), 76, 106
white slavery and, 122–24
purchase brides, 20
Quaaludes, 241
Quinn, Roseanne, 230
“race suicide,” 33, 109–10, 111, 116, 142
rackets, 88–89, 92, 93, 96, 103, 107, 120, 124
radio soap operas, 178
Rainy Day Club, 90
rape, 70–71, 155, 241
Rear Window, 193
Reisman, David, 179
Rhys, Jean, 164
Richardson, Dorothy, 55, 78–83, 84, 194
Roberts, Julia, 40
Robinson, Grace, 154
Robinson, Solon, 66
Robles, Richard, 227–28
Roiphe, Katie, 255–56
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 36, 40, 154, 155, 159
Roosevelt, Theodore, 33, 109, 116
Rosenteur, Phyllis, 211
Rosie the Riveter, 166, 167
rubbering, 88, 91
Rules, The (Fein and Schneider), 258–59
Sagan, Françoise, 185–86
Salem witch trials, 17, 21
Salinger, J. D., 198
Sands, Alma, 71–72
Sanger, Margaret, 115
Sarmiento, Domingo, 29
Saunders, Florence Wenderoth, 99–100, 102–3
Sawyer, Lanah, 70–71
Sayers, Dorothy L., 17
Scharf, Lois, 160
Scudder, Vida, 26
Seberg, Jean, 186
Sedgwick, Catherine M., 27
settlement houses, 35–37, 143
Seventh Heaven (Hoffman), 176
Sex and the City, 1, 262–63
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 212
sexology, 111, 117–18, 141–45, 156
frigidity in, 142, 144, 145, 172, 198
lesbianism in, 143–44, 145
typology of, 142–43
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (Parent), 231
shop girls, shoppies, 9, 84–98, 103, 127, 128, 232
“blue Mondays” of, 91
clothing of, 85–86, 89–91
controlled facial expressions of, 86, 94–95
critics of, 90–91
dances attended by, 88–89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96
dress reform desired by, 90–91
education of, 97
“fairy days” of, 92, 94
in films, 97
free-time activities of, 88–89, 95–96
living quarters of, 89, 105
male sales clerks vs., 86
nascent feminism of, 93
newsletters of, 92–93
salaries of, 86
store social clubs formed by, 92, 94
teaching profession entered by, 97
“treating” of, 88, 94
upper-class women vs., 93–94
working conditions of, 85–88, 91, 92, 94–95
youth of, 91–92
shopping bag ladies, 241
Showalter, Elaine, 39
Show Boat, 23n
single blessedness, 25–48, 53, 114
exemplars of, 40–48
marriage proposals rejected in, 26, 31–32
public taunts endured in, 32–33
special friends in, 28–30
see also communal living
single girl murders, 227–31, 240–41
“Singleness of Heart” (Katz), 16
single parents, 222, 223, 235
singles bars, 222, 229
singles industry, 220–21
singles scene, 219–22, 240
Single Woman, The (Rosenteur), 211
siren, 137–38
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 8, 59
slacker spinsters, 256–59
“slumming,” 64, 73, 93–94
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 30, 36
smoking, 114–15, 116, 130, 132, 133, 134, 143, 158
Smollett, Tobias, 16–17
Southgate, Eliza, 25
Speck, Richard, 228
spieling, 88–89, 93, 128
spinsters, 9, 14–53, 56, 57, 105–6, 109, 110, 129, 135–36, 190, 197, 219
behavior required of, 23–24
courtesan training proposed for, 21
deportation proposed for, 20–21, 23, 32
Depression era and, 161–62
in early America, 21–25
in 1851 British census, 19–21
in 1855
U.S. census, 23
first appearance of, 15–16, 18
free labor provided by, 139, 186n
in industrial revolution, 18–21
as insane, 16, 29, 53
lesbians and, 11, 28–29
in literature, 14, 16–17, 19–20, 24, 48–53
maintaining contact among, 50
as widows-manqué, 23n
work sought by, 18, 19–20, 23, 50
see also new spinsters; old maids
spinster stories, 50–52, 156–57, 262
Stanley, Henry Morton, 62
Stanley, Olga, 112
Stansell, Christine, 58, 71, 89
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 33
Steel, Dawn, 250
Steinem, Gloria, 210, 211, 213, 218, 235–37
Sterling, Claire Wellesley, 94
stock-market crash (1929), 147
Stoner, Lucy, 74
Storm, Gale, 196
stronger sex, women as, 172
Suckow, Ruth, 108–9, 163–64
suffrage movement, 74, 100, 114, 117
laws achieved by, 36, 45, 119, 126
political agitation in, 114, 173
Sullivan’s Travels, 155
Swanson, Gloria, 130
sweatshops, 58
syphilis, 68, 123
“Tabitha,” as name, 17
“Tale of Not So Flaming Youth, A” (Kirk), 134–35
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