03434nam 22007693u 450 991078269580332120230421045211.01-74219-469-91-74219-196-7(CKB)1000000000693150(EBL)410457(OCoLC)476232983(SSID)ssj0000249812(PQKBManifestationID)11204611(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249812(PQKBWorkID)10227999(PQKB)10826418(MiAaPQ)EBC1657843(MiAaPQ)EBC410457(Au-PeEL)EBL1657843(OCoLC)875097920(PPN)269249583(EXLCZ)99100000000069315020130418d1997|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe Spinster and Her Enemies[electronic resource]1st ed.Chicago Spinifex Press19971 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-09983-8 1-875559-63-9 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 FeminismCHAPTER 9 The Invention of the Frigid Woman CHAPTER 10 The 'Prudes' and the 'Progressives'; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; OTHER BOOKS BY SHEILA JEFFREYSSheila 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.FeminismGreat BritainHistorySexual behaviorSexual ethics for womenSingle womenFeminismHistoryEnglandSexual ethics for womenHistoryEnglandSingle womenSexual behaviorHistoryEnglandFeminism.Great Britain.History.Sexual behavior.Sexual ethics for women.Single women.FeminismHistorySexual ethics for womenHistorySingle womenSexual behaviorHistory305.420942306.7082Jeffreys Sheila553920AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910782695803321The Spinster and Her Enemies3790415UNINA