The Spinster and Her Enemies
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The Spinster and Her Enemies

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
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The Spinster and Her Enemies

About this book

Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined, and asserts that the decline of this feminism was due largely to the promotion of a sexual ideology which was hostile to women's independence. The circumstances about which she writes are frighteningly familiar in the present political climate.

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Information

Publisher
Spinifex Press
Year
1997
eBook ISBN
9781742191966
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. BOOK COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. PREFACE TO 1997 EDITION
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER 1 Feminism and Social Purity
  9. CHAPTER 2 Continence and Psychic Love
  10. CHAPTER 3 ā€˜The sort of thing that might happen to any manā€™: Feminist campaigns and politics around the sexual abuse of children
  11. CHAPTER 4 ā€˜Henpeckingā€™: Womenā€™s campaigns to gain legislation against the sexual abuse of girls
  12. CHAPTER 5 Spinsterhood and Celibacy
  13. CHAPTER 6 Womenā€™s Friendships and Lesbianism
  14. CHAPTER 7 Antifeminism and Sex Reform before the First World War
  15. CHAPTER 8 The Decline of Militant Feminism
  16. CHAPTER 9 The Invention of the Frigid Woman
  17. CHAPTER 10 The ā€˜Prudesā€™ and the ā€˜Progressivesā€™
  18. AFTERWORD
  19. NOTES
  20. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  21. INDEX
  22. OTHER BOOKS BY SHEILA JEFFREYS