Helen Gurley Brown, a journalistic pioneer who helped shape the self-image of American women through her work as editor of Cosmopolitan for more than three decades and as author of influential 1962 ...

I started thinking this morning about one of those deep topics that will likely fill my mind for weeks or months: What kind of feminist am I? I'll admit I didn't delve into this topic on my own. I ...

I was still in college in 1962 when, in the space of three weeks, more than two million women bought Helen Gurley Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl,” which proclaimed that women’s rights should extend ...

“Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown” by Gerri Hirshey; Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (500 pages, $27) If there’s nothing more American than a rags-to-riches ...

Helen Gurley Brown was Cosmopolitan magazine’s editor-in-chief from 1965 until 1997, becoming an enormous influence on the evolution of women's issues during that period. She is also known for her ...

1 Growing Up Gurley, and a Girl 1 -- 2 Work Life, Romantic Entanglements 23 -- 3 David Brown 40 -- 4 Sex and The Single Girl 57 -- 5 Sensationalist Literature and Expert Advice: Selling Sex and the ...