The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis.

You've met the extra woman: she's sophisticated, she lives comfortably alone, she pursues her passions unabashedly, and-contrary to society's suspicions-she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for a brief, exclamatory period in the late 1930s, she...