The Spinster and Her Enemies [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Jeffreys Sheila
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| Titolo: |
The Spinster and Her Enemies [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : Spinifex Press, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.420942 |
| 306.7082 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Spinster and Her Enemies |
| ISBN: | 1-74219-469-9 |
| 1-74219-196-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782695803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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