The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930Spinifex Press, 1997 - 237 pages The Spinster and Her Enemies is an important book on a watershed period in the history of sexuality." ... splendidly documented, provocative and never dull"--Times Literary Supplement"Sheila Jeffreys is an excellent historian"--Sunday TimesThe much-anticipated re-release of this classic feminist text includes a revised and updated introduction. 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 the 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 |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Feminism and Social Purity | 6 |
Continence and Psychic Love | 27 |
Feminist campaigns and politics around the sexual abuse of children | 54 |
Womens campaigns to gain legislation against the sexual abuse of girls | 72 |
Spinsterhood and Celibacy 2 | 86 |
Womens Friendships and Lesbianism | 102 |
Antifeminism and Sex Reform before the First World War | 128 |
The Decline of Militant Feminism | 147 |
The Invention of the Frigid Woman | 165 |
The Prudes and the Progressives | 186 |
Afterword | 194 |
Bibliography | 215 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930 Sheila Jeffreys Aucun aperçu disponible - 1985 |
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