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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782695803321

Autore

Jeffreys Sheila

Titolo

The Spinster and Her Enemies [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Spinifex Press, 1997

ISBN

1-74219-469-9

1-74219-196-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

305.420942

306.7082

Soggetti

Feminism

Great Britain

History

Sexual behavior

Sexual ethics for women

Single women

Feminism - History - England

Sexual ethics for women - History - England

Single women - Sexual behavior - History - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 Anti-feminism and Sex Reform before the First World War; CHAPTER 8 The Decline of Militant Feminism

CHAPTER 9 The Invention of the Frigid Woman CHAPTER 10 The 'Prudes' and the 'Progressives'; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; OTHER BOOKS BY SHEILA JEFFREYS



Sommario/riassunto

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 1880's and 1890's. 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.