by Moira Weigel
Daily Mail
Daily Princetonian
Daly, Maureen
dancing; controversial; in the street
Danson, Ted
Dateline NBC (TV show)
dating: advice literature on; AIDS impact on; as allegedly dead; anonymity in; and automobiles; and breaking up; as cause of moral harm; changing sexual mores of; in cities; cohabiting while; in college; competing definitions of; early practices of; economic underpinnings of; as exclusionary; film portrayals of; as foundation of community; “going steady” while; in high school; interracial; leading to marriage; as liberating; likened to prostitution; and looking for The One; metaphorical language of; middle-class; origins of; as recreation; as romantic; selection patterns in; services; as “shopping around”; sitcom portrayals of; sources of advice on; speed; “sugar”; taste as driver of; as theater; time pressures of; as transaction; video; as work; working-class; in the workplace; see also calling; going steady; hooking up; monogamy; online dating; polyamory
Davis, Angela
Davis, Bette
DeBartolo, Joseph
Definitions fitness studios
deindustrialization
DeLillo, Don
Delta Airlines
desire; communicating; female; fetish; as liability; see also wanting
desirability; as driver of work ethic
Detroit
Dewey, John
Deyo, Rabbi Yaacov
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-III
Didion, Joan
Diggers
disco music
divorce
Dix, Dorothy
Dodson, Betty
Donnelly, Antoinette, see Blake, Doris
DonorMatchMe
Donovan, Frances
Douglas, Michael
drag
Drag, The (West)
drugs
Earl, Harley
Easton, Dossie
Ebony
Edwards, Richard
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elders, Jocelyn
Elle
Ellis, Bret Easton
Ellis, Havelock
emotional labor
End of Men, The (Rosin)
England, Paula
Eros and Civilization (Marcuse)
Erotic Revolution, The (Lipton)
Essence (magazine)
Ethical Slut, The (Easton and Hardy)
Etiquette (Post)
eugenics
Exercise for Men Only (magazine)
Extra (TV show)
Facebook
Fairfax Cryobank
family planning; see also pregnancy; reproduction; teenagers
Faris, Anna
FarmersOnly
Fatal Attraction (film)
Father Knows Best (TV show)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Fein, Ellen
Feldstein, Howard
Female Brain, The (Brizendine)
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
feminism; as past; Fun Fearless; hooking up and
feminists; black; working-class
Feminist Theory (hooks)
Fenway Health Community Center
Ferber, Edna
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
fertility: commodified; egg freezing; female; male; sterilization; see also pregnancy; reproduction
Find a Husband After 35 (Greenwald)
“findoms”
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
500 Days of Summer (film)
Flappers
flirting; among lesbians; online; uncertainties of
Food and Drug Administration
Fonda, Jane
Ford, Harrison
Ford Motor Company
Forget-Me-Not (magazine)
Four Tops
Frankenstein (1931 film)
Franklin, Benjamin
fraternities
free love; inequality of; as rejection of parents’ world
Free-Thinker, The (periodical)
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
Friedan, Betty
Friedman, Milton
Friends (TV show)
Fussers
Gallup polls
Game, The (Strauss)
Garden State (film)
Gay Men’s Health Collective at Fenway
Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)
Gay-Related Immuno Deficiency (GRID), see AIDS
gay rights; coming out
General Motors
Genius Bank, see Repository for Germinal Choice
gentrification
Georgetown Connection
Gere, Richard
GI Bill
Gilmore, Elizabeth Meriwether, see Dix, Dorothy
Gilmore Girls
Ginsberg, Allen
Girls Club of Santa Barbara
Girls Gone Wild
Girl’s Guide to Dating and Going Steady, A (McGinnis)
Giuliani, Rudolph
Glimpse (app)
Glyn, Elinor
going steady; consumerism shapes; controversy over; leading to marriage; as reputation protection
Going Steady (film)
Goldberg, Whoopi
Goldman, Emma
Google
Gottlieb, Lori
Grant, Cary
Grateful Dead
Gray, John
Great Depression
Great Expectations
Great Recession
Greene, Bob
Greenwald, Rachel
Griffith, Melanie
Grindr (app)
Griscom, Rufus
Gwinnell, Esther
Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
Halberstam, David
Hall, G. Stanley
Hamilton Lodge (Odd Fellows)
happiness
hangouts
Hardy, Janet W.
Harlem River Casino
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Harvey Milk Foundation
Harvey, Steve
health care
Hefner, Hugh
Heigl, Katherine
Hendrickson, Joan
Henry, O.
Herbal Essences hair products
Heldman, Caroline
Herman, Robert
He’s Just Not That Into You (Behrendt)
High Fidelity (film)
Hill, Napoleon
Hinge (app.)
hip-hop
hippies
Hirschfeld, Magnus
Hochschild, Arlie
Hoffman, Abbie
Holleran, Andrew
Hollywood
Homeland (TV show)
Homosexual in America, The (Cory)
Homosexuals; and AIDS; in gay clubs; Lavender Scare; hookup culture among; in military; “pansy parades”; public space for
Hook, Theodore Edward
hooking up; apps for; demographics of; investigated by social scientists; media interest in; as preparation for navigating the new economy
Hooking Up (Wolfe)
hooks, bell
Hotel Koenig (bar)
Hot Shoppe
House of Cards (American TV show)
House of Cards (British TV show)
How about we … (dating website)
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Carnegie)
Howard Brown Health Center
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic (Callen and Berkowitz)
Hudson, Rock
Hughes, John
Hughes, Langston
Human Be-In
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); see also AIDS
Hϋsker Dϋ
IBM
Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy (Braswell)
Illinois, University of
immigrants
income; declining wages; inequality
Indiana, University of
Industrial Revolution
inequa
lity, : gender; racial; sexual; see also income
in loco parentis
Instagram (app)
International Species Information System
IntroLens
in vitro fertilization (IVF), see fertility; pregnancy; reproduction
Is Sex Necessary? (Thurber and White)
It Girl
It’s Not Him, It’s You (Hartman)
jazz
JDate
Jeffreys, Sheila
Jimmy Kelly’s (speakeasy)
Jobs, Steve
Joe Boxer
Jones, Billy
Jones, Stephen, see Lust, Nurse Wanda
Journal of Marketing
Joy of Cybersex, The (Levine)
Kant, Immanuel
Kaplan, Helen Singer
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Kardashian, Kim
Keese, Susan
Kellogg Company
Kelly, Gene
Kelly Longitudinal Study
Kerouac, Jack
Kinsey, Alfred
Kipnis, Laura
Kirchheimer, Anne
Knocked Up (film)
Kominers, Scott
Koop, C. Everett
Kramer, Larry
Kupferberg, Tuli
labor, see work
Ladies’ Home Journal (magazine)
Lean In (Sandberg)
Leary, Timothy
LeClair, Linda
leisure
LeMasters, E. E.
Levan, Larry
Levine, Deborah
Lewinsky, Monica
Licata, Sal
Life (magazine)
Lifton, Robert Jay
Limp Bizkit
Lindsey, Benjamin
Lipton, Lawrence
Loft, the (discotheque)
Lord & Taylor
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Sentinel
Los Angeles Times
Louis XIV, King of France
Louvre
love; American attitudes toward; as chance event; as emotional labor; greed for; labor of; as “Love™”; marketplace of; as a process; right to; true; see also free love
LSD
Lust, Nurse Wanda
Mackay, Ellin
Macy’s
Made in America (film)
Mad Men
Madonna
Maidenform bras
Male Brain, The (Brizendine)
Management Review (journal)
Mancuso, David
Manley, Audrey F.
manufacturing
Marcuse, Herbert
Mario Kart (video game)
marketing; market segmentation
Marks, Percy
marriage; ambivalence about; common-law; declining rates of; and economic considerations; gay; postponing; pregnancy leading to; as privilege of middle class; as “settling”; as sexual slavery; teen
Marry Him (Gottlieb)
Marry Smart (Patton)
Marx, Karl
Marxists
masculinity
masturbation
Match.com
matchmaking services
maternity leave
Max, Tucker
Maxwell’s Plum
Mazel Dating
McCarthy, Sen. Joseph
McGinnis, Tom
McKaughan, Molly
McSorely’s Old Ale House
Mead, Margaret
Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus (Gray)
Meridian (sex network)
Merrill, James
Michigan, University of
Mills, C. Wright
Miracle of Life, The (film)
Miss Lonelyhearts (West)
Modern Courtship and Marriage (LeMasters)
monogamy; serial; as response to AIDS; as social control tool
Monroe, Marilyn
Moore, Doris Langley
Moranis, Rick
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (CDC report)
Moss, Kate
motherhood
Motherhood, Rescheduled (Richards)
Motown Records
Mount Holyoke College
MTV
Munro, Alice
music: see disco music; jazz; popular music
Mutual Arrangements
Nation, The
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Institutes of Health
National Marriage Project
National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
National Survey of Family Growth
Nerve.com
New Haven
New Left
New Orleans
New Republic, The (magazine)
Newsday
Newsweek
New York (magazine)
New York City; AIDS crisis in; Bowery; Coney Island; East Village; gay experience in; Greenwich Village; Harlem; Human Resources Administration, of; sex education in; singles bars in; Staten Island; Times Square; Upper East Side
New Yorker (magazine)
New York Native (newspaper)
New York Review of Books (periodical)
New York Times
New York University
New York World Sunday Magazine
nickelodeons
Norris, Bob
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Office, The (TV show)
Old School (film)
OkCupid; niche signaling on
online dating; debates over; economic underpinnings of; niche signaling on; polarization on; pooling equilibrium effect on; predators; skewing effect on
Online Seductions (Gwinnell)
On the Road (Kerouac)
Open Hearts Project
Operation Match
Oxford English Dictionary
Ozzie and Harriet (TV show)
Packard, Esther
Paradise Garage (discotheque)
parenting; helicopter; sex education through; supervision of courtship in
parietal rules
Parker, Dorothy
Partners
Patton, Susan
Peacock, Thomas Love
Peale, Norman Vincent
peer pressure
Penn State University
Pennsylvania, University of
Penny, Laurie
People Network
Perrier sparkling water
Perverted Justice
Peterson, Martha
petting; parties
Philosophy of Love, The (Glyn)
Pickup Artists (PUA)
Planned Parenthood
Plastic Age, The (Marks)
Playboy (magazine)
Plaza Hotel
PlentyOfFish
Poland, Jefferson
Police, the (rock band)
polyamory
Popular Daughters
puoular music
pornography; online
Post, Emily
Power of Positive Thinking (Peale)
POZ (magazine)
pregnancy; and biological clock; discouraged among poor; film portrayals of; and in vitro fertilization (IVF); and sperm banks; teen; see also fertility; reproduction
President’s Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
Pretty Woman (film)
Prodigy, Inc.
Progressives
Prohibition
Project TACT
prostitution; portrayed on film; see also sex workers
Puerto Rico
Puma shoes
Putnam’s Handbook of Etiquette
Pygmalion myth
racial discrimination
rape
RCA-Victor
Reagan, Ronald; AIDS policy of
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The (TV show)
Real Sex (TV show)
Redbook (magazine)
Reed, J. D.
Reiss, Ira
rent parties
Repository f
or Germinal Choice
reproduction; economic factors in; technological assistance in; see also fertility; pregnancy
Republican Party
Research Institute of America
Revenge of the Nerds (film)
Revolt of Modern Youth, The (Lindsey)
Reyburn, Samuel
Richards, Sarah Elizabeth
Richman, Phyllis
Risky Business (film)
Roberts, Julia
Robinson, Smokey
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockwell, Norman
Rogan, Seth
Rogers, Ginger
Rosary College
Rosett, Jane
Rosin, Hanna
Ross, Diana
Rubin, Jerry
Rules Girls
Rules, The (Fein and Schneider)
Saab
Saleslady, The (Donovan)
Salt-N-Pepa (hip-hop trio)
Sandberg, Sheryl
Sanders, Ed
San Francisco; AIDS crisis in; the Castro; Mission District; Tenderloin; Haight-Ashbury; homosexual experience in
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Sanger, Margaret
Sarria, José
Savage, Dan
Savage Love (newspaper column)
Sawyer, Diane
Say Yes to the Dress (TV show)
Schneider, Sherrie
Schrader, Julie Ann
Seale, Bobby
Seattle
SeekingArrangement
segregation
Seinfeld (TV show)
Seinfeld, Jerry
self-help industry
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The (Covey)
Seventeenth Summer (Daly)
sex; abstinence from; advice about; in age of AIDS; at college; group; and inhibited sexual desire (ISD); as leisure; as liberating force; premarital; pre-premarital; safe
Sex and the City (TV show)
Sex and the Office (Brown)
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown)
sex education; abstinence only; online
Sex for One (Dodson)
Sex in the Nineties (TV show)
sex therapy
Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man (Anderson and Berman)
Sexual Dictionary (1916)
Sexual Freedom League
sexual health
sexual revolution
sexual violence
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); see also AIDS; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
sex workers
Shins, the (rock band)
Shopgirls; as Charmers
Silver, Cookie
Single Girl; desirability of; financial independence of
singles bars
singles chat rooms
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Skinny Girl Margaritas
slavery; “white slavery”
Sleeping Beauty (film)
Sloan, Alfred P.
Smith, Dr. David
Smith, Lamar
Smiths, the (rock band)
Smith, Wendell
Smylie, Catherine
Sneak Previews, Inc.
Social Register
Sonnabend, Dr. Joseph
Sonnichsen, Natalie
Sopranos, The (TV show)
sororities