![]() ![]() ![]() Though Brown did not feature birth control in the book, she did refer to it as a “safe” and “reliable” option for women who decided to engage in sexual intercourse. ![]() So, what does Sex and the Single Girl have to do with Margaret Sanger? In short, quite a lot. The book was a celebration of a single life in which women enjoyed as much sexual freedom as men did. Though Brown is best known as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine, it was her first book, Sex and the Single Girl that brought her to the public eye and secured her position at Cosmo. Making a woman feel “comfortable to be themselves” was Brown’s primary goal, and one she considered to be quite feminist in itself. “How could any woman not be a feminist?” she once asked aloud in an interview with Cosmo in 1985. Was she a feminist? An anti-feminist? Whether she helped or hindered the feminist cause can be debated, but Brown never questioned her ideals. Helen Gurley Brown’s recent death prompted both fans and critics alike to debate her legacy and impact on women’s rights. Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl, a landmark work that catered to the single woman of the early 1960s. ![]()
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