03167nam 2200637 a 450 991082175200332120200520144314.01-74219-469-91-74219-196-7(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)99100000000069315020090331d1997 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe spinster and her enemies feminism and sexuality, 1880-1930 /Sheila Jeffreys1st ed.North Melbourne, Vic. Spinifex19971 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-09983-8 1-875559-63-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.FeminismEnglandHistorySexual ethics for womenEnglandHistorySingle womenSexual behaviorEnglandHistoryFeminismHistory.Sexual ethics for womenHistory.Single womenSexual behaviorHistory.305.420942306.7082Jeffreys Sheila553920MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821752003321The Spinster and Her Enemies4062170UNINA