The Outsiders (Hinton), 13–14, 175

P

parenting. see motherhood and parenting

Parents of New York United, 150

People magazine, 115, 117, 133

Personal Products Company (Johnson & Johnson), 37

Philadelphia Daily News, 180

physical appearance, Forever (Blume) and portrayal of, 83

Pico, Steven, 149–51, 168

Pill (birth control pill), 75–76, 95

Pinter, Harold, 214

Places I Never Meant to Be (Blume), 203

Planned Parenthood

Calderone and, 30

National Coalition Against Censorship and, 192

portrayal of, in Blume’s books, 87, 95–96, 139, 141

Playboy Clubs, “A Bunny’s Tale” (Steinem) on, 4

Playboy magazine, inception of, 2

Pollack, Pamela D., 103

Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 130, 167

Prentice Hall (publisher), 9, 10–17

Presenting Judy Blume (Weidt), 4, 17, 61–62, 80, 85, 109, 215

Pretty Baby (film), 141

Pro-Family Forum, 175–76

puberty, 18–26. see also menstruation

Are You There God? (Blume) on, 18–20, 22–26

Blume’s personal experience and, 19–21

boys’ puberty portrayed in Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Blume), 39–42, 69, 79, 144, 186

menstruation education and Are You There God? (Blume), 28–29, 32–34, 36–37. see also sex education

“messiness” of childhood, 38–45

publishing industry categories for, 11–15

“Teen-Age Girls” (Life) on, 21–22

Publisher’s Weekly, 12, 121, 122, 185

publishing industry. see also individual names of publishing houses

paperbacks and Blume’s popularity, 101–7

Wifey (Blume) publication, 131–32

young adult (YA) inception, 11–15

Puffin Books, 207

R

race

Blume’s audience and, 104

Critical Race Theory controversy, 204–5

divorce and women’s finances, 53–54

early writing by Blume on, 7, 9

literacy and slavery, 209

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself (Blume) on, 119–21

Sundown towns, 152

“welfare queens,” 181

Wifey (Blume) on, 126–27

Ramona the Pest (Cleary), 11