letters from, 45
male, 45–46
married, 106–7
readers’ reports, 181–82, 222
upper-class, 99
rebranding, 120
Recken, Stephen, 80
Redbook, 263
relaxation, 88
Renié, 177–78
rent-a-gent agencies, 24, 193–94
reproductive rights, 249. See also contraceptives
Reynolds, Debbie, 260
RKO Pictures, 177, 192
Robeson, Paul, 195
Rockefeller Center, 180
Rockwell, Norman, 25
Rosie the Riveter, 211–12
Rogers, Ginger, 176, 177, 192
Rohde, Gilbert, 126
Rombauer, Edgar, 139
Rombauer, Edgar Jr., 139
Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff, 139–40
The Joy of Cooking, 23, 140–43
Streamlined Cooking, 142–43
Rombauer, Marion, 139
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 22, 82, 118, 165–66, 169, 188–89, 216
It’s Up to the Women, 166
as older woman role model, 228
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 22, 36, 118, 165–66, 181
administration of, 166–67
inaugural address of, 75
signs Executive Order No. 8802, 216, 217
spotted reading Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman, 45–46
Roosevelt, Mrs.Theodore Jr., 124–25
Roosevelt, Theodore, 50, 51
Rosie the Riveter, 25, 208–14
Rosie the Riveter (film), 212–13
Rosie the Riveter (painting), 211–12
Ross, Harold, 72, 168
Roulston, Charlotte, 204
Roulston, Heather, 223
Roulston, Henry, 205, 223
Roulston, Marjorie (Henry’s wife), 223
Roulston, Marjorie Hillis. See Hillis, Marjorie
Roulston, Thomas Henry (Harry), 24–25, 221–24, 225–26
death of, 26, 223–24, 226, 229–30
marriage to Hillis, 204–10
Roulston, Thomas Sr., 204
Roulston, Tom, 223
Roulston, William, 223
Roulston & Sons, 204
Russell, Rosalind, 27, 178, 257, 259, 260, 261
Safire, William, 308n
Salinger, J. D., 227
Sanger, Margaret, 188
Saturday Evening Post, 25, 211, 247
Saturday Review, 176
Savage, Augusta, 199
savings, 92, 96–97
“Says Marjorie Hillis,” 45, 91
Schaap, Rosie, Drinking with Men, 144
Schrafft’s, 185–87
Scott, Hazel, 195
screwball romances, 147, 259
second-wave feminism, 20
segregation, 195, 215–16, 239
self, sense of, 264–65
self-help genre, 25–26, 30, 36, 48–49, 75–88, 108, 124–25, 218, 268–69. See also specific books and authors
correspondence courses, 117
during the Depression, 21–22
marriage and, 253–56
self-improvement, 84–85
self-improvement theories, 76
Self-Made Woman, 173
self-maintenance, 235–36
self-management, 83–84
self-reliance, 22, 30, 48–49
self-restraint, 105
sex, 28, 29, 71, 234
marriage and, 246–49
outside of marriage, 272–79
single women and, 270–79
sex discrimination, 164, 165, 175, 189, 209, 216, 217, 242, 270
sex reassignment surgery, 261–62
sexual freedom, 272–79
sexual politics, 170
“shadow of marriage,” 17
Shapiro, Laura, 136
Shattuck, Frank, 186
Shearer, Norma, 253–54
“The Sickness of Apathy,” 28
Simpson, Wallis, 61–62, 73, 228
single mothers, 97
singleness
history of, 15–20
“willful blindness” to, 18
single people, as majority of the U.S. population, 15
single women, 287. See also Live-Aloners
in the 1950s, 237–42, 263
in the 1960s, 263–84
freedom of, 279
at nightclubs, 193
self-help and, 255
sex and, 270–79
slavery, 18
Small’s Paradise, 196
Smart, Isabel, 122–24
Smart Blonde, 178
“smart” magazines, 71–72
“Smart Poor,” 99
Smith, Margaret Chase, 228
Smith College, 264
social class, 99, 101–2, 107–8, 109,
110
Social Security, 166, 167
Soviet Union, 246–47
speakeasies, 23, 54, 150–51, 191, 196
“spinsters,” 16
Spock, Dr., 249
Stanwyck, Barbara, 232
Starker, Steven, 78
Star Times, 47
“stay-at-home” mothers, 163
Steichen, Edward, 72
Stewart, Jimmy, 148, 208
St. Louis, Missouri, 47, 48
stock market crash of 1929, 63, 65, 92, 101, 110, 197–98
Stork Club, 193, 194
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 51
Strayer, Sara Baker. See Margery Wilson
style, 73–74
of older women, 73
suburbs, 240–41
success, 81, 85
success manuals, 79–80, 88, 108
Summertime, 260
Swanson, Gloria, 228
Tanner, Edward Everett III, 261. See also Dennis, Patrick
Tanner, Marion, 257–58, 308–9n
television, 28, 241
That Girl, 28
Third Great Awakening, 50
Thomas, Marlo, 28
Thompson, Florence Owens, 109–10
thrift, 101–2, 104–5, 106
throwback 1950s, 20
“tie-up” marketing schemes, 40–41
Time (magazine), 246
Top Hat, 192
Torchy Gets Her Man, 178
trade jobs, 137
travel, 64–65, 198–99
in New York City, 183–90
Truman, Harry S., 216
Tuckerman, Dorothy, 117. See also Draper, Dorothy
Tudor City, 37–38, 49, 65, 91, 114
Twenty-First Amendment, 190
“two-job” women, 164
Universal Pictures, 41
upper classes
the Depression and, 137
domestic service and, 137–38
U.S. Supreme Court, 17–18
Vanity Fair, 70, 72
Van Vechten, Carl, 196–97
Varney, Carleton, 125
violence, 28, 29
Vionnet, Madeleine, 72, 192
“virtual representation,” 18
visualization, 79–80
Vogue, 67–72, 104, 129, 226–30, 237
Hillis at, 21, 34–35, 40, 56, 63, 67–68, 70–71, 74, 94, 113–15, 162–63
“As Seen by Him,” 68
Volstead era. See Prohibition
Wake Up Alone and Like It, 85–86
Waldorf-Astoria, 193
Walker, A’Lelia, 197–98
Walker, Madam C. J., 197
Wall Street, 180–81
Wanamaker’s, 40
War Advertising Council, 218–19, 221
wardrobes. See also fashion
economical, 104–5
war effort, 217–21, 238, 239, 241
Warner Brothers, 178
Washington, Booker T., 60
Washington, George, inauguration of, 180
Washington DC News, 39
Washington Post, 236–37
wealth, 110
West, Mae, 73, 14
6, 301n
Wharton, Edith, 101, 115
The Decoration of Houses, 203
French Ways and Their Meaning, 105, 299n
Whitaker, Alma, Bacchus Behave!, 152
White, Walter, 216
“White Collar Girl” (“WCG”), 173, 174, 175–76, 178
white-collar jobs, 175
white flight, 240–41
white women, 18
widows, 18, 230–32, 234–37
economic power of, 228–29
finances of, 237
stereotypes of, 228–29
“widow’s portion,” 17
Wife vs. Secretary, 173
Williams, Esther, 232
Wilson, Kristina, 300n
Wilson, Margery, 80–82
Make Up Your Mind, 83–84
The Woman You Want to Be: Margery Wilson’s Complete Book of Charm, 81–83
Wilson, Paul Caldwell, 167
Wilson, Susanna, 167
Wolfe, Elsie de, 116
“Woman of 1939,” 188–89
Woman’s Home Companion, 265
women, 279–84. See also Live-Aloners; married women; single women; working women
advertising industry and, 220–21
alcohol and, 143–52
citizenship and, 16–19
Communism and, 242
as consumers, 186
defined as wives, 16–18
domestic labor and, 163
domestic lives of, 166
education and, 169–70, 244–46, 268
in film, 146–48, 257–61
Freudian theories about, 250–51
independence of, 146–47, 167–69
legal status of, 16–19
older, 73, 226–29, 234–37
political potential of, 166–67
in postwar era, 220
rights of, 16–19, 167–69
war effort and, 220–21
World War II and, 208–17
Women’s Alliance, 140
women’s hotels, 184–86
women’s-liberation movement, 27–29, 263–70. See also women’s rights
women’s magazines, 105–6. See also specific magazines
“women’s pictures,” 27
women’s rights, 27–29, 166–67, 248–49, 263–70
women’s suffrage movement, 166–67, 169
Woodhull, Victoria, 53
Woolf, Virginia, 11–12
work, 25–27. See also jobs; working women
Work Ends at Nightfall, 155–62, 249
working conditions, 166–67
The Working Girl Must Eat, 142
working girls, Kitty Foyle, 170–78
“working” mothers, 163, 219–22
working women, 25, 42, 137, 159–62, 201, 234–36
all women as, 163
backlash against, 189
the Depression and, 110, 159, 164, 165–66
discrimination against, 164, 209
in film, 212–13
forced to quit upon marriage, 244–45
married, 22, 163–65
married vs. single, 22
postwar years, 242–46
professional opportunities during the Depression, 174–75
sex and, 277–78
“White Collar Girl” (“WCG”), 178
“working” mothers, 163, 219–22
World War II and, 208–21, 238
“work-life balance,” 84, 163–66, 209–10, 219–20
World’s Fair (1939), 24, 180–81, 188, 190, 199, 200, 201
“Women’s Month,” 207
World War I, 51–52, 54
World War II, 20, 25, 30, 137, 201, 208–9, 223, 238
African Americans in, 215–17
marriage during, 209–10
propaganda and, 217–19
women and, 208–17
working women and, 208–21, 238
WPA, 87, 200
Wright, Russel, 126, 127
You Can Start All Over, 230–32, 241
reviews of, 236–37
Young, Hazel, 134–35
YWCA, 200, 201
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