Bad girls go everywhere: The life of Helen Gurley Brown

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

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1. Helen Gurley Brown, "Step into My Office, " Cosmopolitan, February 1997, 20.
2. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963).
3. Gloria Steinem, "In Step with Helen Gurley Brown" (Palm Springs, CA: TAE Productions, 1985), HGB-SSCSC (16).
4. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard A. Geis, 1962), 70.
5. Helen Gurley Brown quoted in Daniel Meacham, The Magic of Self-Confidence (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), HGB-SSCSC (36).
6. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 4, 8.
7. On Helen Gurley Brown's work in relation to the history of self-help, see Micki McGee, Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
8. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 259.
9. For the history of Oklahoma in general and the Ozarks in particular, see Brooks Blevins, Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986); and C. Fred Williams et al., eds., A Documentary History of Arkansas (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005). For the history of the Gurley and Sisco families, see letter from Helen Gurley Brown to Carl Stamps, August 13, 1981, HGB-SSCSC (13); letter from Claude Cisco to Cleo Sisco Gurley, February 21, 1929, HGB-SSCSC (13); and Will of Charles Sneed, December 2, 1865, HGB-SSCSC (13); and Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963, HGB-SSCSC (35).
10. C. Fred Williams et al., eds., A Documentary History of Arkansas (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005). For the history of the Gurley and Sisco families, see letter from Helen Gurley Brown to Carl Stamps, August 13, 1981, HGB-SSCSC (13); letter from Claude Cisco to Cleo Sisco Gurley, February 21, 1929, HGB-SSCSC (13); and Will of Charles Sneed, December 2, 1865, HGB-SSCSC (13); and Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963, HGB-SSCSC (35).
11. On the history of Hot Springs National Park, see Ray Hanley and Steven Hanley, Hot Springs, Arkansas (Mt. Pleasant, SC: Arcadia, 2000).
12. See Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—and—But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (New York: Penguin, 1998). Quote from p. vii of Regina Barreca's introduction. All background information about Gentleman Prefer Blondes is from Barreca's insightful and informative introduction.
13. "Big Sister, " Time, vol. 91, no. 6 (February 9, 1965), 60. Anita Loos wrote an article for the May 1974 issue of Cosmopolitan. Brown wrote to thank her, stating, "We all consider you the Cosmopolitan girl... you were being sexy and having a fantastic career at the same time before anybody!" Loos wrote back, claiming about Brown's letter, "I shall treasure it among the best things that have happened to me in a very long career!" Letters between Helen Gurley Brown and Anita Loos, February 26, 1974, and March 4, 1974, HGB-SSCSC (8).
14. Helen Gurley Brown, I'm Wild Again (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 7, 23, 286.
15. On the flood, see John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998). On the Works Progress Administration, see Federal Writers Project, The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987).
16. On the Works Progress Administration, see Federal Writers Project, The WPA Guide to 1930s Arkansas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987).
17. On protective labor legislation, see Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage (New York: Viking, 2005); Susan Lehrer, Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1985); Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis, eds., Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995); and Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
18. Susan Lehrer, Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1985); Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis, eds., Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995); and Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
19. Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis, eds., Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995); and Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
20. Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
21. See letter from Helen Gurley Brown to Dorothy London, May 25, 1989, HGB-SSCSC. On the history of Chicago, see Robert G. Spinney, City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000); Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).
22. Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).
23. Helen Gurley Brown, "Things I Wish I'd Known at 18, " Sunday Express Magazine, April 9, 1983, HGB-SSCSC (2).
24. Helen Gurley Brown, "Rich Girls, " unpublished manuscript, n.d., HGB-SSCSC (36).
25. Brown, "Things I Wish I'd Known at 18. "
26. Richard Wright, "Inner Landscape, " New Republic 103 (August 1940), 195; Helen Gurley Brown, notes for the Late Show, HGB-SSCSC (29).
27. Helen Gurley Brown, "History, " unpublished manuscript, no date, HGB-SSCSC (35).
28. Caroline Clark, "Helen Gurley Brown—She Can't Recall a Dull Moment, " Arkansas Gazette, November 19, 1967, 4E, HGB-SSCSC (2).
29. On the history of polio, see David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), and Jeffrey Kluger, Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (New York: Putnam, 2005). When the daughter of the book and film critic Gene Shalit was paralyzed in an accident, Helen Gurley Brown wrote him a letter in which she revealed more of the history of her sister's polio. The best way to help people in these circumstances, she wrote, is to care for them, lavishly, and "also to lead your own life because you can't join them in the wheelchair; it doesn't help if you go down the drain with grief and caring and actually you can both live good lives with lots of trying. " Helen Gurley Brown, letter to Gene Shalit, June 1, 1989, HGB-SSCSC (9).
30. Jeffrey Kluger, Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (New York: Putnam, 2005). When the daughter of the book and film critic Gene Shalit was paralyzed in an accident, Helen Gurley Brown wrote him a letter in which she revealed more of the history of her sister's polio. The best way to help people in these circumstances, she wrote, is to care for them, lavishly, and "also to lead your own life because you can't join them in the wheelchair; it doesn't help if you go down the drain with grief and caring and actually you can both live good lives with lots of trying. " Helen Gurley Brown, letter to Gene Shalit, June 1, 1989, HGB-SSCSC (9)
31. Brown, I'm Wild Again, 10.
32. Deirdre Donahue, "Brown Lives Magazine's Message, " USA Today, April 13, 1980, 1D-E, HGB-SSCSC (2); Gloria Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown, " (Palm Springs, CA: TAE Productions, 1985), HGB-SSCSC (16).
33. Anne Eaton, "The Girl with Her Nose Pressed to the Window, " Suburbia Today, September 26, 1982, 9, HGB-SSCSC (28).
34. On cultural ideas of beauty during Helen Gurley's day, see Lois Banner, American Beauty: A Social History Through Two Centuries of the American Idea, Ideal, and Image of the Beautiful Woman (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2006).
35. Virginia Garrison, "Helen Gurley Brown: Mama Hen to Swinging Chicks, " Arkansas Democrat, July 6, 1969, 3C, HGB-SSCSC (2).
36. On the history of women's access to higher education, see Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Women: A History of Women in Higher Education in America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986)
37. John Mack Faragher and Florence Howe, eds., Women and Higher Education in American History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988)
38. Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).
39. Helen Gurley, unpublished manuscript, n.d., HGB-SSCSC.
40. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963, HGB-SSCSC (35).
41. Helen Gurley, unpublished manuscript, n.d., HGB-SSCSC.
42. Brown, I'm Wild Again, 11.
43. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiographical piece, HGB-SSCSC (36).
44. File not used for The Late Show, HGB-SSCSC (29).
45. Helen Gurley Brown, manuscript notes for The Late Show, HGB-SSCSC (29).
46. On the cachet of the Wilshire Boulevard address, see Kevin Roderick, Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA: Angel City, 2005).
47. Helen Gurley Brown, letter to Paul Ziffren, July 20, 1988, HGB-SSCSC (10).
48. Helen Gurley Brown, manuscript notes for The Late Show, HGB-SSCSC (29).
49. Jesse Kornbluth, "The Queen of the Mouseburgers, " New York, September 27, 1982, 38, HGB-SSCSC (28).
50. Leo Robin, "Little Girl from Little Rock, " lyrics composed for Broadway musical production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1949.
51. On the history of Jews in Hollywood, see Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1989); Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture (New York: Verso, 2004); J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
52. Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture (New York: Verso, 2004); J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
53. J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
54. Brown, "Year of Being Kept (But Not Very Well), " 17.
55. See Brown, I'm Wild Again, 15-28.
56. "Whatever Happened to Don Belding?" Sales Management, January 7, 1966, HGB-SSCSC (21).
57. Gloria Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown" (Palm Springs, CA: TAE Productions, 1985), HGB-SSCSC (16).
58. Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown. "
59. Helen Gurley Brown, draft of Sex and the Office, chapter 3, HGB-SSCSC (22).
60. Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown. "
61. See Norman Brokaw and Norm Meyer, The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003).
62. On the history of women's work in the United States, see Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei, Race, Gender, and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (Boston: South End Press, 1999). On secretarial work, see Marjorie W. Davies, Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter; Office Work and Office Workers, 1900-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), and Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
63. Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei, Race, Gender, and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (Boston: South End Press, 1999). On secretarial work, see Marjorie W. Davies, Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter; Office Work and Office Workers, 1900-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), and Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
64. On secretarial work, see Marjorie W. Davies, Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter; Office Work and Office Workers, 1900-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), and Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
65. Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
66. Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown. "
67. Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage (New York: Viking, 2005), 227. See also Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988); Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: William Morrow, 2002); and Wini Breines, Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
68. See also Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988); Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: William Morrow, 2002); and Wini Breines, Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
69. Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: William Morrow, 2002); and Wini Breines, Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
70. Wini Breines, Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
71. Helen Gurley, unpublished manuscript, no date, HGB-SSCSC (35).
72. Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 12, 39, 152. See also William H. Chafe, The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994); and Juliet Mitchell, "Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender), " European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (November 2004), 415-26.
73. also William H. Chafe, The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994); and Juliet Mitchell, "Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender), " European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (November 2004), 415-26.
74. Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994); and Juliet Mitchell, "Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender), " European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (November 2004), 415-26.
75. Juliet Mitchell, "Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender), " European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (November 2004), 415-26.
76. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished manuscript, HGB-SSCSC (35).
77. Helen Gurley Brown, speech to USO, May 10, 1991, HGB-SSCSC (15). On the history of women and the USO, see Meghan K. Winchell, Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses During World War II (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
78. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard A. Geis, 1962), 4.
79. Helen Gurley, journal entry, March 19, 1953, HGB-SSCSC (35).
80. Shirley Low, "Sex and the 61-Year-Old Ms., " Boston Globe, November 14, 1982, HGB-SSCSC (2).
81. On women in the advertising profession, particularly in copywriting, see Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The "Ladies' Home Journal, " Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture (New York: Routledge, 1995). Although many of the early women in the field had college degrees, if not graduate degrees, advertising remained a profession with career ladders for less educated but ambitious individuals, primarily men, of course.
82. Runner Associates, "Miss Helen Marie Gurley, " February 1957, HGB-SSCSC (4).
83. Helen Gurley Brown, speech to Parents without Partners, early to mid-1960s, HGB-SSCSC (15).
84. Helen Gurley, unpublished material, 1956, HGB-SSCSC, (36).
85. Brown, unpublished manuscript, n.d., HGB-SSCSC (35).
86. Rock, "Little Girl from Little Rock, " 1949.
87. Brown, I'm Wild Again, 33.
88. On Helen Gurley Brown's time at Kenyon & Eckhardt, see Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963, HGB-SSCSC (35).
89. Helen Gurley Brown, "What the Women's Movement Means to Me, " Ms., July 1985, 118.
90. Steinem, "In Conversation with Helen Gurley Brown. "
91. Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show (New York: William Morrow, 1993), 52.
92. Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show (New York: William Morrow, 1993), 52.
93. Carl Henneman, "Best-Sell Author Pens 'Better One,' " St. Paul Dispatch, May 20, 1964, 58, HGB-SSCSC (24).
94. David Brown, "Long Island and the Single Boy, " On the Sound 2, no. 8 (August 1972), 52, HGB-SSCSC (36). On the history of Long Island, see Bernie Bookbinder, Long Island (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998); and Marilyn Weigold, The Long Island Sound: A History of Its Peoples, Places, and Environments (New York: New York University Press, 2004). For a short history of Prohibition, see Thomas R. Pegram, Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 (New York: Ivan R. Dee, 1998).
95. see Bernie Bookbinder, Long Island (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998)
96. Marilyn Weigold, The Long Island Sound: A History of Its Peoples, Places, and Environments (New York: New York University Press, 2004)
97. For a short history of Prohibition, see Thomas R. Pegram, Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 (New York: Ivan R. Dee, 1998).
98. David Brown, "Long Island and the Single Boy, " 50.
99. David Brown, Let Me Entertain You (New York: William Morrow, 1990), 60. This book, rich with insights about Hollywood insiders is, as the inside cover states, "a self-portrait, in selective memory, of a man who has lived many lives, all of them full of risk, accomplishment, and above all, humanity. "
100. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 19-24.
101. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 35, 250-51.
102. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 38.
103. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963, HGB-SSCSC (35).
104. Cindy Adams, "He Made Her a Married Woman, " Pageant, December 1963, 68, HGB-SSCSC (1).
105. Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963.
106. Helen Gurley Brown, "So He Won't Marry You, " Women and Beauty, April 1964, 24, HGB-SSCSC (36).
107. Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963.
108. Jean Walker, "Marriage? Three Modern Misses Discuss an Up-to-Date Dilemma, " Los Angeles Mirror News, May 5, 1959, HGB-SSCSC (2).
109. Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963.
110. Brown, unpublished autobiography, 1962-1963.
111. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished manuscript, n.d., HGB-SSCSC (35).
112. Helen explained that David didn't like that she worked Saturdays. See Jack Curry, "Two on an Island, " New York Daily News (September 10, 1980), 8, HGB-SSCSC (36).
113. Adams, "He Made Her a Married Woman, " 71.
114. Joyce Gabriel, "Efficient, Feminine—That's Helen Gurley Brown, " Escort, January 24, 1971, 9, HGB-SSCSC (2).
115. Adams, "He Made Her a Married Woman, " 68.
116. Curry, "Two on an Island, " 8.
117. Helen Gurley Brown, unpublished manuscript, 1995, HGB-SSCSC (35).
118. Henneman, "Best-Sell Author Pens 'Better One,' " 58.
119. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 70.
120. Curry, "Two on an Island, " 8.
121. Judy Bachrach, "Couples, " People, November 1, 1982, 55-56, HGB-SSCSC (1).
122. April Levy, "The Blond Who's Had More Fun, " New York, http://nymag.com/personals/articles/02/02/singles/bushnell1.htm (accessed October 8, 2008).
123. Quotation from book jacket, Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard A. Geis, 1962).
124. Laurie Ouellette, "Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams, " Media Culture & Society 21 (1999), 361.
125. For statistics on Sex and the Single Girl, see scrapbook, HGB-SSCSC (47).
126. Helen Gurley Brown, "Brief Resume of What's Happened with the Book So Far, " July 1962, HGB-SSCSC (31).
127. Helen Gurley Brown, account of origins of Sex and the Single Girl, in David Brown manuscript, November 17, 1989, HGB-SSCSC (35).
128. Helen Gurley Brown, letter to Judith Krantz, April 5, 1978, HGB-SSCSC (8).
129. On the ways in which pregnancy outside of marriage was viewed, see Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (New York: Routledge, 1992).
130. Helen Gurley Brown, The Writer's Rules (New York: William Morrow, 1998), xix.
131. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, back cover.
132. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 5-6.
133. Jennifer Jarratt, "Marriage Hasn't Changed the Single Girls' Champion, " Free Press, March 19, 1966, HGB-SSCSC (1).
134. Helen Gurley Brown, town hall speech, October 8, 1964, HGB-SSCSC (15).
135. Joseph Adelson, "Is Women's Liberation a Passing Fad?" New York Times Magazine, March 19, 1972, 94.
136. "Boy Meets Girl in Wartime, " Pamphlet A496, 1943, quoted in May, Homeward Bound, 68-69.
137. Israel, Bachelor Girl, 6.
138. Coontz, Marriage, A History, 227.
139. Helen Gurley Brown, speech to Parents without Partners, early to mid-1960s, HGB-SSCSC (15).
140. Coontz, Way We Never Were, 186.
141. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 7, 8.
142. Israel, Bachelor Girl, 208.
143. Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs, Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), 60.
144. May, Homeward Bound, 99.
145. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 22.
146. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 167, 174, 179-80, 185.
147. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 89.
148. Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (New York: Viking, 2000), xi.
149. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 103.
150. David Brown, " Sex and the Single Girl As Seen by David Brown, " Cavalier, April 1964, HGB-SSCSC (1).
151. Kenneth C. Davis, Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), 101, 103. On the history of the paperback industry, see also Clarence Peterson, The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing (New York: Bantam Books, 1975); Allen B. Crider, Mass Market Publishing in America (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982); and Lee Server, Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback, 1945-1955 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994).
152. Barbara Seaman, Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann (New York: William Morrow, 1987), 270. According to Geis's son, Stephen, Geis used to give out Bernard Geis Associates pens, which featured a miniskirt-clad woman sliding down a pole in a liquid-filled chamber, to anyone who dared the descent on the pole. Letter from Stephen Geis to Jennifer Scanlon, March 4, 2008.
153. Joan Didion, "Bosses Make Lousy Lovers, " Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1965, 36, HGB-SSCSC (21); letter from Stephen Geis to Jennifer Scanlon, March 4, 2008.
154. Seaman, Lovely Me, 270.
155. Davis, Two-Bit Culture, xii, 41.
156. David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Villard Books, 1993), 579.
157. Quoted in Mitchell Owens, "Rona Jaffe, Author of Popular Novels, Is Dead at 74, " New York Times, December 31, 2005 [online], available at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/arts/31jaffe.html (accessed February 27, 2008).
158. Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: William Morrow, 2002), 206.
159. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard A. Geis, 1962), 249.
160. Halberstam, Fifties, 580.
161. Davis, Two-Bit Culture, 259.
162. Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988), 187.
163. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 3.
164. Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs, Remaking Love: The Feminization of Sex (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1987), 25.
165. David Brown, unpublished manuscript, October 17, 1989, HGB-SSCSC (35).
166. See Laurie Ouellette, "Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams, " Media, Culture & Society 21 (1999), 369-83.
167. Terry Galanoy, "You and Your Love Life, " Rogue, September 1962, 37, HGB-SSCSC (21).
168. Bernard Geis, letter to Saul David, June 19, 1962, HGB-SSCSC (19).
169. John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sex in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 159.
170. On the history of the censorship of paperbacks, see Davis, Two-Bit Culture, 216-47.
171. Robert Kirsch, "Sex and the Single Girl Falls Short of Its Promising Title, " Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1962, 2; Norman Vincent Peale, "Where Do You Draw the Line?" Miami Herald, February 3, 1966, 2C; letter to the editor, San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 1962; Cleo Brown, letter to Helen Gurley Brown, May 3, 1962, all from HGB-SSCSC (6).
172. Norman Vincent Peale, "Where Do You Draw the Line?" Miami Herald, February 3, 1966, 2C; letter to the editor, San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 1962; Cleo Brown, letter to Helen Gurley Brown, May 3, 1962, all from HGB-SSCSC (6).
173. Anne Eaton, "The Girl with Her Nose Pressed to the Window, " Suburbia Today, September 26, 1982, 10 HGB-SSCSC (28).
174. Didion, "Bosses Make Lousy Lovers, " 36.
175. Linda Kerber, " 'I Was Appalled': The Invisible Antecedents of Second-Wave Feminism, " Journal of Women's History 14, no. 2 (Summer 2002), 94.
176. Janaan Sherman, introduction to Interviews with Betty Friedan, ed. Janaan Sherman (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002), ix.
177. See Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminist Mystique, 87.
178. On cultural expectations around motherhood and domesticity, see Juliet Mitchell, "Procreative Mothers (Sexual Difference) and Child-Free Sisters (Gender), " European Journal of Women's Studies 11, no. 4 (November 2004), 415-26.
179. Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 177, 180.
180. Rosemary Hennessee, Betty Friedan: Her Life (New York: Random House, 1999).
181. Whelehan, Feminist Bestseller, 27.
182. Jennifer Jarratt, "Marriage Hasn't Changed the Single Girls' Champion, " Free Press, March 19, 1966, HGB-SSCSC (1).
183. "The Browns, " 1963, HGB-SSCSC (1).
184. For histories of the second wave of feminism, see Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (New York: Viking, 2000); Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Women and the Future of Feminism (New York: Ballantine, 2002); and Sara M. Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End (New York: Free Press, 2003).
185. Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Women and the Future of Feminism (New York: Ballantine, 2002)
186. Sara M. Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End (New York: Free Press, 2003).
187. Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 206-32, 333, 334, 344.
188. See Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942); William H. Whyte Jr., The Organization Man (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956); David Reisman, et al., The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969).
189. William H. Whyte Jr., The Organization Man (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956)
190. David Reisman, et al., The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969).
191. Jane Howard, "Bettty Friedan's Pet Pique: The Feminine Mystique, " in Interviews with Betty Friedan, 3.
192. Hollows, "Feminist and the Cook, " 71-72.
193. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (New York: Bernard A. Geis, 1962), 120.
194. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 134, 135.
195. "Bad Girl, " Psychology Today (March/April 1963), 71, HGB-SSCSC (2).
196. Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 43.
197. See Susan Estabrook Kennedy, If All We Did Was to Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979); bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (Boston: South End, 1981).
198. bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (Boston: South End, 1981).
199. Chris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell, eds., Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (Normal, IL: FC2, 1995).
200. Helen Gurley Brown, "Sex in Marriage, " Neue Illustrierte (1963-64), HGB-SSCSC (36).
201. Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 261.
202. Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 257.
203. Miller, "Feminine Mystique, " 12.
204. Anne Eaton, "The Girl with Her Nose Pressed to the Window, " Suburbia Today (September 26, 1982), 7, HGB-SSCSC (28).
205. Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 276, 277.
206. Helen Gurley Brown, speech, early 1960s, HGB-SSCSC (15).