Soul Date a Mate
Soul Mates Unlimited
Soviet Union
Spears, Britney
Sperm Bank of California
sperm banks; see also fertility; pregnancy; reproduction; individual names of sperm banks
SRI International
stagflation
Standard Oil
Stanford University
Stanton Street Settlement
Steadies
Steady Era
Stein, Gertrude
Stewart, Martha
Stillman, Alan
Sting
Stone, Oliver
Stonewall riots (1969)
Stover at Yale (Johnson)
Strand Hotel (New York)
Stranger, The (newspaper)
Strauss, Neil
StrawClub (app)
Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Studio 54 (nightclub)
Sugar Babies
Sugar Daddies
Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs
Summer of Love (1967)
Summers, David
Supremes, the
swingers
Syracuse University
Taylor, Kate
Technique of the Love Affair, The (Moore)
teenagers; black; gay; hookups among; Latina; life planning of; marriage among; pregnancy among; runaways; sex among; spending of; see also sex education
Teen Mom
television; sex education from; sitcoms on
Temptations, the
T.G.I. Friday’s
Think and Grow Rich (Hill)
Third World AIDS Advisory Task Force (TWAATF)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
Thorne, Richard
Thurber, James
Thurman, Wallace
Till, Emmett
Time (magazine)
Tinder (app); hooking up on
Today For Singles, Inc.
Tokyo
Toronto
Town and Gown (story collection, 1922)
Toyota
Toys in Babeland
transgendered; public spaces for
Transvestites (Hirschfeld)
Tri Ess
Trojan condoms
True Love Waits
Tuscaloosa
Twenge, Jean
Uber
Ullman, Estelle
Ullman, Jeff
Understanding AIDS (Koop)
Vacio, Natividad
Valdez, Scott
Van Wilder (film)
vaudeville
Veness, T. W.
Venning, Rachel
vice
vice squads; target homosexuals
Vietnam War
Virginia Slims cigarettes
Virginia, University of
Virtual Dating Assistants
Vogue
Von Teese, Dita
Wade, Brandon
Wade, Lisa
Wallace, David Foster
Waller, Willard
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street Journal
wanting; to be wanted
Washington, D.C.
Washington Post
Watkins, Gloria, see hooks, bell
Weaver, Sigourney
Weird Science (film)
welfare
Wellesley College
Werther, Ralph
West, Kanye
West, Mae
West, Nathanael
What’s Your Number? (film)
What to Eat and When (Cocroft)
When Harry Met Sally (film)
White Collar (Mills)
White, E. B.
White Noise (DeLillo)
Whitman, Walt
Wicker, Randy
Williamson, Terry
Winfrey, Oprah
Wired
Wisconsin, University of
Wizard of Oz (film)
Wolfe, Tom
Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
women’s liberation
Working Girl (film)
Working Woman (magazine)
Woodhull, Victoria
work; being overworked; effect on dating of; effects on reproduction of; emotional; freelance; precariousness of; women’s
Work and Education Survey (Gallup, 2014)
World War I
World War II; effect on dating
Wright, Frances
Yale University
yippies
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
Youth International Party, see yippies
Yuppie Handbook, The (Piesman and Hartley)
yuppies; consumer practices of; dating practices of; film portrayals of; work lives of
Zuckerberg, Mark
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Moira Weigel was born in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, n + 1, and The New Inquiry, among other publications. She is currently completing a PhD in comparative literature at Yale University. After years of first-person research on dating, she is off the market. This is her first book. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Title: Labor of love: the invention of dating / Moira Weigel.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2015041606|ISBN 9780374182533 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374713133 (e-book)
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION: DATES
1. TRICKS
2. LIKES
3. OUTS
4. SCHOOL
5. STEADIES
6. FREEDOM
7. NICHES
8. PROTOCOL
9. PLANS
10. HELP
AFTERWORD: LOVE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT