The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
Abbot, Elizabeth, 153–4
Abolitionist Federation,
International, 26, 74
abortion, 68, 161
abuse, sexual, see sexual abuse
Acts of Parliament: Children’s
Act (1904), 76; Children’s
Act (1913), 76; Contagious
Diseases Acts, 7, 16, 17,
19–20, 33–4, 72; Criminal
Law Amendment Act
(1885), 16, 55, 74–6, 78,
79, 113; Criminal Law
Amendment Act (1922), 62,
76, 79, 81–4; Divorce Act
(1923), 167; Industrial
Schools Act (1880), 16–17;
Infants’ Act (1882), 28;
Married Women’s Property
Acts, 28, 167; Matrimonial
Causes Act (1884), 31;
Punishment of Incest Act
(1908), 39, 76, 79;
Vagrancy Act, 80
Adult, The, 48–9
affiliation orders, 62, 75
Alliance of Honour, 25–6
animals, 58, 175; human
behaviour compared with,
15, 96, 130, 135, 142, 174,
179–80
anthropology, 37
Anticlimax, criticism of, xiv
antifeminism, xi–xii, 141–6,
150–5, 170, 173–9, 185,
191, 195; see also biological
determinism, prude-calling
and under lesbianism
(opposition to and silencing)
and under spinsters
(opposition to)
anti-pornography campaigns,
see pornography, campaigns
against
asceticism, see under religion
Association for Moral and
Social Hygiene, 61, 65–6,
70–1, 73–4, 81, 82; on
incest, 68; later work, 85,
149, 162, 164; on
lesbianism, 82; origins, 26,
26, 73; Sexual Morality,
Committee on, 56–7
Astor, Nancy, Lady, 56, 64, 70
Auchmuty, Rosemary, 86
auto-erotists, see masturbation
Aveling, Edward, 44
Baden-Powell, Robert, Lord, 25
Baird Committee, 62, 63
Banks, Olive, 150
Bennett, Arnold, 187
Besant, Annie, 44–5, 51
biological determinism,
129–30, 133, 135–7,
138–9, 142–4, 153, 154,
158–9; feminist, 38–9
birth, see childbearing
birth control, 31, 37, 42, 157–8,
187; feminist views, 42,
227