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NOTES
Introduction
1 Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society:
Women Class and the State, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1980.
2 Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England
1500–1800, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977.
3 Two useful books on the social construction of sexuality
are: J.H.Gagnon and William Simon, Sexual Conduct,
London, Hutchinson, 1973, and, for a feminist approach,
Stevi Jackson, On the Social Construction of Female
Sexuality, London, WRRC Publications, 1978.
4 An example of this kind of writing is Jeffrey Weeks, Sex,
Politics and Society, London, Longmans, 1981.
5 For the classic exposition of the social control argument
see Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women
and Rape, London, Secker & Warburg, 1978. A recent
British study which looks at the effects of male violence on
women’s lives is Jalna Hanmer and Sheila Saunders, Well-
Founded Fear: A Community Study of Violence to Women,
London, Hutchinson, 1984.
6 See Florence Rush, The Best Kept Secret: The Sexual Abuse
of Children, New York, McGraw Hill, 1980; Andrea
Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, London,
The Women’s Press, 1981; Catharine MacKinnon, Sexual
Harassment of Working Women, New Haven and London,
Yale University Press, 1979. For British feminist theory on
all aspects of male violence, see Sandra McNeill and Dusty
Rhodes (eds), Women against Violence against Women,
London, Onlywomen Press, 1984. Lal Coveney, Margaret
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