Sex and the Single Girl (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Gurley
- First Published: 1962
- Genres: Nonfiction, Social issues
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Women, Single people, Career women, Dating, Sex roles
The Work
Helen Gurley Brown wrote Sex and the Single Girl, her first book, at the encouragement of her husband, motion picture producer David Brown, to whom the book is dedicated. The thirteen chapters offer information and advice, based on Brown’s thirty- seven years of being single, for single women in their late twenties through their thirties. Brown says her book is for women who may remain single but who are “not necessarily planning to join a nunnery.” She contends, citing the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, that the two most important things in life...
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