Enter Helen (55 page)

What's My Line?
(TV), 239

White, E. B., 216

Whitmore, George Jr., 107

Whitney, Ruth, 362

Williams, Sybil, 57

Willis, Ellen, 325

Wilson, Lisa, 255

Wilson, Robert A.,
Feminine Forever
, 148–49

Wizard of Oz
,
The
(film), 153

Wolfe, Linda, 363

Wolfe, Tom, 75

Wolff, Donna Lawson, 279

“Woman Alone” (syndicated newspaper column), 59, 72–73, 79, 101–2, 103, 106, 201, 235

women:

     
abortions of, 36, 87–88, 123, 284, 300–302, 309, 312, 333, 335, 355, 363

     
advertising to, 328–29, 334

     
and aging, 373

     
ambitions of, 204, 228

     
beauty pageants, 283–87

     
and birth control, 20, 87, 88, 284, 363

     
blacks compared to, 113

     
as Bunnies, 90

     
call girls, 84

     
and careers, 29, 91, 94–97, 102, 210, 308

     
in consciousness-raising circles, 284, 302, 332, 355

     
dependency of, 91–92

     
double standards for, 32, 276, 277, 299, 308, 344

     
and ERA, 324, 362–64

     
as executives, 112, 113

     
extra, 34, 36

     
and femininity, 90

     
and feminism,
see
women's liberation movement

     
forced sterilization of, 309

     
as “girls,” 375

     
housewives, 335–36

     
husbands needed by, 35

     
jobs for, 35–36

     
and lesbianism, 32

     
living with boyfriends, 275–77

     
in low-paying jobs, 303, 308, 370

     
loyal readers, 353–54

     
market research on, 228, 288

     
and marriage, 90–91, 93–94, 223

     
and men's misogyny, 94–95

     
nymphomaniacs, 88

     
Ozarks type, 170

     
and the Pill, 19–20, 149

     
pregnancies of, 36, 44, 91, 301

     
realizing their potential, 329, 330, 355, 370

     
selling to, 42

     
and sex, 33, 86, 88, 310–11, 361

     
sexual harassment of, 378

     
and sexual revolution, 335

     
single, 32, 35–36, 42, 44, 49, 53, 68, 100–103, 108, 122, 125, 200, 219–23, 228

     
and suffragist movement, 366

     
and travel, 220–21, 272

     
as victims, 369–70

     
working-class, 126, 132, 291

women's liberation movement, 300–307

     
and abortion, 284, 300–302, 309, 312, 335, 363

     
and consciousness raising, 284, 302, 332, 355

     
and EEOC, 303

     
and ERA, 324, 362–64

     
and Helen, 287, 307, 308, 310–12, 316, 317, 332, 333, 359, 362, 363–66, 370

     
Ladies' Home Journal
targeted by, 304–6, 307

     
on men as oppressors, 302, 304

     
and Miss America pageant, 283–87

     
and
Ms.
, 325–29, 333–36, 361

     
national strike by, 309–16

     
National Women's Political Caucus, 324–25

     
New York Radical Women, 278, 283, 305

     
as radical feminist movement, 278

     
Redstockings, 300–302, 305, 306

women's rights, 277, 278, 309, 370

Women's Wear Daily (WWD)
, 105, 255, 278, 289, 293, 297, 298, 339

Wood, Natalie, 122

Woodbury Business College, 191–92

Woodward, Joanne, 304

World Journal Tribune
, 254

World's Fair, Chicago (1933), 109, 110, 182

World's Fair, New York (1964), 109–11

Wosk, Miriam, 336

Writer, The,
163

Writer's Digest
, 151

Writers Guild, 215–16

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 93

Wylie, Janice, 99–100, 107

Wylie, Max, 99–100

     
Career Girl, Watch Your Step!
, 98, 102–3

Wylie, Philip, 99

     
Generation of Vipers
, 95

     
“The Career Woman,” 94–95

Yellow Rolls-Royce
,
The
(film), 164

Young, Gene, 111

YWCA, 44, 102

Zanuck, Darryl F., 28, 73, 131, 236, 318–19

Zanuck, Richard, 131, 318–20, 348–49, 359–60

Zanuck/Brown Company, 348–49, 359–60

Ziegfeld, Florenz Jr., 137

Ziegfeld Follies, 137

Ziffren, Paul, 6, 7

Zolotow, Maurice, 47

BROOKE HAUSER
often covers women in media and entertainment. Her work has appeared in the
New York Times,
the
Los Angeles Times
,
Allure
,
Parade
, and
Premiere
, among other publications. As a journalist, she has written about a wide range of subjects, including female corrections officers, Baptist preachers, Chinese beauty queens, and a former secretary of state. Hauser's first book, about young newcomers to America,
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
, was a winner of the American Library Association's 2012 Alex Award. Originally from Miami, Florida, Hauser recently moved to western Massachusetts, where she lives with her family and occasionally teaches nonfiction writing at Smith College.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hauser, Brooke, author.

Title: Enter Helen : the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman / Brooke Hauser.

Description: New York : Harper, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038742| ISBN 9780062342669 (hardback) | ISBN 9780062342690 (ebook)

EPub Edition APRIL 2016 ISBN 9780062342690

Subjects: LCSH: Brown, Helen Gurley. | Women—New York (State)—New York—Biography. | Single women—New York (State)—New York—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous.

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