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Sex and the Single Girl is a 1962 non-fiction book by American writer Helen Gurley Brown, written as an advice book that encouraged women to become financially independent and experience sexual relationships before or without marriage.
Unlike men, single women risked ruining their family's reputation if they wanted to engage in sexual activity outside the contexts of marriage. By the mid-late Middle Ages, the prospect of an independent woman came under increased scrutiny. The prevailing belief was that sex between two unmarried individuals was sinful.
Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. ISBN 9780226855677. The Ambiguities of Self-Help: Concerning the Life and Work of the Lancashire Dialect Writer Edwin Waugh. Littleborough: George Kelsall, 1984. ISBN 9780946571000. A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women ...
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In the socially rigid Georgian society, women held precarious positions: unrecognized as independent subjects under common law, they were generally subject to male authority (father, brother, or husband) and financially dependent on them. Unless they had high social standing and significant personal wealth, unmarried women were socially ...