Excerpt from Sex and the Single Girl
Published in 1962.
"I never met a completely happy single woman…or a completely happy married one!"
At a time when American society made it very clear that women should aspire to be wives and mothers, Helen Gurley Brown lived happily as a single, working woman. Recognizing that some women felt torn between society's expectations of them to marry and a drive to pursue careers, Brown wrote Sex and the Single Girl as a guide for others to enjoy the kind of life she had discovered for herself. In it she detailed how to get a satisfying job and earn pay raises, dress for success in business, eat right, and exercise. While no book had ever before offered women such useful career advice, the book became a sensation for its explicit discussion of sex between unmarried people. Brown described how to flirt, "be sexy," find available men, and have...
Source: The Sixties in America: Primary Sources, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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