tampons, 88–89

Teaching Sex (Moran), 75–76, 182

“Teen-Age Girls” (Life), 21–22

teen pregnancy

Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA) on, 181–82

as book subject of late 1960s and early 1970s, 79–80, 85

The Judy Blume Diary (Dell), 144

The Telegraph (United Kingdom), 207

The Trouble with Thirteen (Miles), 156

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Blume), 39–42, 67, 79, 144, 186

Thomas, Cal, 179–80

Tiger Eyes (Blume), 118, 142, 171–74

TimeLife Books, 31–32, 70

Time magazine, 47

Too Hot to Handle (Zimmerman), 30–31

Town Bloody Hall (documentary), 55

Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 214

Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt), 189

U

University of North Carolina Press, 186

An Unmarried Woman (film), 141

V

Verrone, Robert “Bob,” 10–12, 16–17, 25, 101

“Very Personally Yours” (pamphlet, Kotex and Walt Disney), 36–37

Village Voice, 55

virginity, 79–92

Forever (Blume) on, 80–87, 90–92

marriage and, 88–89

teen pregnancy as book subject (late 1960s and early 1970s), 79–80, 85

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 149, 150, 186

W

Walt Disney (company), 35

Warren, Joseph, 166

Washington Post, 132–33, 145, 177–78

Waxman, Carol, 206–8, 210–11

Weidt, Maryann N., 4, 17, 61–62, 80, 85, 109, 215

“welfare queens,” 181

“We Need Judy Blume Now More Than Ever” (A.V. Club), xvi

“What About the Right to Say ‘No’?” (Lee), 86

“What Became of Childhood Innocence?” (New York Times), 173–74

Whedon, Julia, 120

Where Did I Come From? (Mayle), 70–71

White, E. B., 11, 38, 167

Wifey (Blume)

as Blume’s first adult novel, 4

Klein on, 161

themes of, 81–82, 123–30, 131–32

Wilson, George, 189–91

Wilson, Katherine, 190

Wilson, Teresa, 189–91