The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
‘homosocial worlds’, 103, 116
Hopkins, Jane Ellice, 9–15,
16–18, 19, 38
Housewives’ League, 150
housing, 68, 76, 111–12
Housman, Laurence, 187
humanism, 94, 190
Hunt, Mary, xiii–xiv
Hutchinson, Mrs, 60
Hutton, Isabel, 172
Ignota, see Wolstenholme Elmy,
Elizabeth
illegitimacy, 48, 166
imperialism, 25–6, 134
incest, 18, 67, 76–9;
explanations, 67, 68, 69–70,
76–7; laws, 20, 39, 54, 76,
77–9; and prostitution, 77
indecent exposure, 70, 72
individualism, 94, 155
infanticide, 35, 187
intergenerational sex, xii
International Abolitionist
Federation, 26, 74
International Council of
Women, 22
‘intersex’/‘intermediate sex’,
170, 175, 181, 191; see also
homosexuality
Jackson, Margaret, xii
Jeffries, Mrs, 20
Jewsbury, Geraldine, 102–3
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 104
Johnson, Effie, 43–4
judges and magistrates:
attitudes, 55–7, 59, 63, 162;
clearing courts of women,
61, 62; need for women as,
60, 61–2
jurors, 61–2
Kerr, R.B., 188
Key, Ellen, 137, 140
Kollontai, Alexandra, 156
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von,
110, 112
labour movement, 151, 159
Labour Party, 115, 151
Ladies’ Associations for
Friendless Girls, 10, 16,
17–18, 22
Ladies National Association for
the Abolition of the
Contagious Diseases Acts, 7,
26, 28, 29, 33, 73, 80
Lancet, The, 77
language: euphemistic, 77;
limitations, 27–8
Lawrence, D.H., 150, 157, 173,
187
laws:
British, see Acts of
Parliament and by-laws;
Canadian, 20; Scots, 76
League of Isis, 35, 37–8
Lee Ellis, Edith, 107
legal system: bias, 58–60; see
also laws, judges and
magistrates and punishment
Legitimation League, 48
Lehmann, Rosamund, 124–5
lesbianism/lesbians, 100–27,
152; and children, 118;
as a choice, 196; culture,
107, 113, 125, 127; and
feminism, 105, 108, 112,
118–19, 127; history in
Britain, xiv; laws against,
proposed, 82, 106, 113–15;
men’s fantasies of, 109–10;
opposition to, 100–1, 105–9,
112, 112–27, 138, 155,
164, 165, (as ‘frigid’) 170–1,
175 (see also sub-entry
silencing below}; sexual
expression, 104, 109–11,
118, 120; silencing, 100,
110–11, 114–17, 123–7,
181, 188; and spinsterhood,
100, 175; stereotypes, 105,
106–7, 109–11, 118, 124–7,
170; as threat to male
power, 105, 114–15, 120;
use of term, 100, 105, 112–13;
see also homosexuality and
spinsters/spinsterhood
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