W
Wages. See Pay
Waller, Willard, 59
Watt, Ian, 16 -17
Wolfe, Donald M., 14 n
Women: in "consciousness-raising" groups, xiv -xv;
and cult of domesticity, 19 -21;
in "cultures of resistance," xv (see also Resistance);
individualism and, 7 , 8 -13, 15 , 16 , 29;
and kin networks, 23 -24, 78 -79, 101 , 172 (see also Family);
marriage for (“her marriage"), xiii;
mixedsex socializing by young, 29 (see also Courtship);
single, 13 , 16 , 86 , 103 , 118 , 146 -47, 168 -67 (see also Divorce). See also Gender stratification; Marriage; Women's friendships
Women's culture, 38 -41, 53 -54, 66 , 100 , 121 , 153 , 162 . See also "Women's sphere"
Women's friendships, xi , xii -xiii, xv -xxii, 17 -18, 25 -176;
closest, xv , 76 -96, 203 -4n.26 (see also Best friends; Intimacy);
and community, xii , xvi , 2 , 22 , 25 , 58 , 121 , 152 -70;
configurations of association in, 91 -96;
and individuation, xvi , 61 , 97 -100, 105 -21, 153;
as institution, xiii , xv -xvi, 60 -96;
interviewing about, xvi , xxi -xiii, 171 -76;
marriage affected by, xv , xvi , xviii , 30 ,
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40 -41, 44 -45, 54 -60, 122 -58 passim, 163 -70 passim;
modernization of, 17 -32 passim, 98 -99, 119 -20;
subordinate to marriage, 85 -86, 91 , 112 -21, 153 , 161;
values of, 33 -59, 73 -74, 94 -95, 96 . See also Couple-socializing; Romantic friendship
"Women's sphere," 8 -13, 36 , 41 -44. See also Private sphere
Work, paid: closest friends' status at, 84 , 87 -88;
friendship affected by, 87 -88, 167 -68;
interviewees', xx , xxi , 82 , 173 -74;
interviewees' husbands', xx , 174;
women's income level at, 138 , 155 . See also Marriage work
Working class, 8;
courtship in, 196 n.38;
interviewees in, xii , xvii , xviii -xix, xx , xxi;
marriage in, 192 n.4;
women's friendships in, 25 , 39;
women's public resistance in, 164 n