In 1962, when Helen Gurley Brown published her bestselling advice book, women couldn’t open credit cards in their own name, and Cosmopolitan magazine - which Brown would soon oversee as editor-in-chief - was still running anodyne cover stories like “How to Protect Your Family.” Against this cultural backdrop, Brown urged young women to enter the workforce and sleep with men.
In many ways, Sex and the Single Girl was groundbreaking.
