The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
44–5, 159–60; movement
for, 138, 159–62; techniques,
44
Blackwell, Dr Elizabeth, 19
Bloch, Iwan, 108–9, 128,
138–9, 181
Booth, W.Bramwell, 25
Boyle, Nina, 60, 62
boys, abuse of, 55, 58–9
Bradlaugh, Charles, 44
Brecher, Edward, 128
Bristow, Robert, 6
Brittain, Vera, 123–4, 187, 189
Brontë, Emily, 152
Broughton, Rhoda, 111–12
Browne, Stella, 51–2, 100,
115–19, 121, 156, 159,
187, 189; attacks on
spinsters, 51–2, 96–7, 175;
and lesbianism, 115–19, 121,
125; translations, 167, 186
Browne, Thomazine Leigh, 19
Brownmiller, Susan, 3n5
Bunting, Lady, 73, 80
Bushnell, Dr Kate, 23–4
Butler, Josephine, 7, 8–9, 11,
19, 28, 72, 73–4; and class,
69, 180; marriage, 86
by-laws, 20
‘Cailin Dhu’, 99
Caird, Mona, 43
Canadian law, 20
cancer, 37
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 102–3
Carpenter, Edward, 107–8,
112, 156, 175
celibacy, see spinsterhood and
under heterosexuality
(without sexual intercourse)
censorship, campaigns for, 7, 14,
26; see also ‘moral majority’
Central Vigilance Committee
for the Repression of
Immorality, 21, 22
Chandler, Lucinda, 23
Chant, Laura Ormiston, 15–16, 23
child sexual abuse, ix, xii
childbearing: women’s right to
choose, 29–30, 42; see also
birth control and
motherhood
children: assaults on, 1914
conference on, 55–6, 60,
64–5, 66, 69; custody of,
76, 79; evidence in court,
61, 75, 76, 77; reserved
playgrounds, campaigns for,
54, 63; sex education books
for, 29; see also boys and girls
chivalry, 92
Christianity, see religion
Church League for Women’s
Suffrage, 50
Church of England, 10–13;
church courts, 76
Church of England Purity
Society, 10, 13, 21–2
civil rights, 17, 39, 74, 80–1
Civil Servants, National
Association of Women, 149
class, social, and class attitudes,
9, 18, 34, 115, 133, 159,
179–80; and incest, 68–9,
76–7; and sexual behaviour,
165, 179–80, 196; and
spinsterhood, 87–8
clergymen, 69
Cleverley, Annie, 73
Coalition Against Trafficking in
Women (CATW), xiv
Comfort, Alex, 131
conferences, women’s 73, 74,
(international), 22–3, 24;
see also Sex Reform
Congress and under children
consent, age of, 11, 16, 39, 55,
75–6, 77, 79–82, 83, 174;
‘reasonable cause to believe’
defence, 56, 74, 75, 79, 82–3;
reasons for campaigning for,
54–5, 79;
see also under Acts of
Parliament (Criminal Law
Amendment Acts)
Cooperative Women’s Guild, 179
Costin, Miss, 57
Craig, Alec, 167–8, 180, 190,
191, 194
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