ISBN:
1875559639
,
9781742191980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 237 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Spinster and Her Enemies
DDC:
305.420942
Keywords:
Sexual ethics for women History
;
Single women Sexual behavior
;
History
;
Feminism History
;
Feminism ; England ; History
;
Sexual ethics for women ; England ; History
;
Single women ; Sexual behavior ; England ; History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE TO 1997 EDITION; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Feminism and Social Purity; CHAPTER 2 Continence and Psychic Love; CHAPTER 3 'The sort of thing that might happen to any man': Feminist campaigns and politics around the sexual abuse of children; CHAPTER 4 'Henpecking': Women's campaigns to gain legislation against the sexual abuse of girls; CHAPTER 5 Spinsterhood and Celibacy; CHAPTER 6 Women's Friendships and Lesbianism; CHAPTER 7 Antifeminism and Sex Reform before the First World War; CHAPTER 8 The Decline of Militant Feminism
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 9 The Invention of the Frigid WomanCHAPTER 10 The 'Prudes' and the 'Progressives'; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; OTHER BOOKS BY SHEILA JEFFREYS
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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