The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
Lockwood, Colonel, 79
Lucifer, 44
Ludovici, A.M., 75–6n8, 173–4
London and National Society
for Women’s Service, 150
Macadam, Elizabeth, 152
Macauley, Rose, 153
McCurdy, Professor, 191
MacKinnon, Catharine, x, xv
magistrates, see judges and
magistrates
male homosexuality/
homosexuals, 94, 105–6,
107–8, 124; as ‘intermediate
sex’, 175; law on, 82, 113;
and sex reform movement,
156, 159, 187–8
male sexuality, 10; campaigns
to change, x, 12, 46–7, 194–6
(see also social purity
movement); feminist views
of, 8, 49, 50, 51; MPs
defend, 83–4; see also male
homosexuality and sexual
abuse of girls
‘man-hating’, 144–5, 178
Mannin, Ethel, 187
marriage: and class, 87; effects,
96; feminist views of, 23,
29–30, 43–4, 47, 86, 88,
91–2, 179–80; polygamous,
145–6, 185; and
prostitution, 169; rape in,
20, 30–1; rate, 89, 145–6,
166, 188, 190; and
respectability, 29; sex reform
movement and, 166–9,
178–85, 192
Marriage Advice Centre,
Walworth, 159, 185
Married Women’s Association,
149
Marsden, Dora, 93–4
Marwick, Arthur, 166
masturbation, 117, 161, 171
Mayhew, Henry, 76
Mearns, Andrew, 76–7
medical ideas and evidence,
34–5, 36–7, 44, 45–6, 49–50
‘medical model’ of sexual
abusers, 67–8, 69–71, 85
Medical Officers of Health,
Association of, 76
Meikle, Wilma, 150–1, 156–7
men: abusing authority, 67, 69,
73, 76, 79; homosexual, see
male homosexuals;
‘incompleteness’, 96;
interests differ from
women’s, 14, 194–6; law of
male sex-right, xv; as
‘mutations’, 35, 38–9;
political struggles, 5; as
proportion of population,
86–7, 88–9, 112, 145–6,
173–4; sexual violence, ix, x,
3; see also male sexuality
Men’s National Association, 73
menstruation, 34–5
mental deficiency, 69, 70
Millett, Kate, xv
Mitchell, David, 158
Mitchison, Naomi, 187, 188
monogamy, 99
Moore-Brabazon, Lt-Col., 83,
114
‘moral majority’, 194; see also
censorship, campaigns for
Moral Reform Union, 18–22,
23, 62
morality, see social purity
movement and standards,
moral
Morgan, E.Noel, 93
motherhood: forced, 56, 75;
feminism and, 140–4, 154,
158; ideology of, 32–3, 47,
134–44, 146, 153–4, 155;
payment for, 137, 151–2,
153; spinsters and, 176
Muller, Miss, 61–2
‘Mutterschutz’, 136, 139
names and marriage, 29
National Council for Equal
Citizenship, 154
232