The Barbizon: the hotel that set women free

Introduction

Building the Barbizon: the unsinkable Molly Brown vs. the flappers

Surviving the Depression: Gibbs Girls and Powers models

McCarthyism and its female prey: Betsy Talbot Blackwell and her career women

The dollhouse days: Grace Kelly and the beauty queens

Sylvia Plath: the summer of 1953

Joan Didion: the summer of 1955

The invisible: Gael Greene and "The lone women"

"The problem that has no name": Sylvia Plath and the 1950s, in memoriam

The end of an era: from women's hotel to millionaires' apartments.

Building the Barbizon

Surviving the Depression

McCarthyism and its female prey

The dollhouse days

Sylvia Plath

Joan Didion

The invisible

"The problem that has no name"

The end of an era.