The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
National Council for Women,
62, 80, 81, 150
National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, 57, 60, 66, 68–9,
75, 77
National Union of Societies for
Equal Citizenship, 42, 57–8,
146, 148, 150, 153, 163–4;
split, 154
National Union of Women’s
Suffrage Societies, 45, 58, 148
National Vigilance Association,
15, 20, 22, 60–1, 69, 72–3,
74–9; legal sub-committee,
75; prosecutions,
involvement in, 77
nationalism, British, 25, 26, 134
Neilans, Alison, 26, 74, 80, 164
Nightingale, Florence, 88, 152
Northcote, Orford, 49
Nott-Bower, Mrs, 65, 66
nuclear arms, 147–8
nuns, 92
Oliver, Kathryn, 96–7, 100
O’Neil, William, 155
Open Door Council, 149
Ottesen-Jensen, Elise, 160, 161
pacifism, 147–8
paedophilia, xii
Pankhurst, Christabel, 28,
46–7, 49–50, 51, 98, 148–9;
religious conversion, 147,
148–9; on spinsterhood, 89,
97–8
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 28, 50,
147
Pankhurst, Richard, 28
Pankhurst, Sylvia, 29
Parliament: Acts of, see Acts of
Parliament; anti-feminism in,
83–4
Parr, Sir Robert, 68–9
Pateman, Carole, xv
Patriarchy Study Group, xii
Paul, Eden, 138
pay, equal, see equal pay
Police, women, 60–1, 62–3
Police News, 62
polygamy, 145–6, 185
pornography, 26, 109–10,
129; campaigns against, x,
xiii, 25, 195; Longford
Report, 26; pro-campaigns,
x, xiii
poverty, 134, 150; and incest,
68, 76–7; women’s, 14–15;
see also class
Powell, F.K., 71
property, law puts above
women, 58
prostitutes, 10, 11–12, 20, 80,
162
prostitution: ‘amateur’, 165–6,
169; campaigns about, xivxv,
2, 6, 7–12, 16–19, 21–2,
33–4, 162; defences of, 33;
extent, 169, 192; feminist
views of, xv, 7–8, 14–15, 39,
71, 162, 195; and incest, 77;
men’s views of, 10, 11, 98;
preventive and rescue work,
10, 11–12, 72, 77; and rape,
71; and ‘sex freedom’, 98;
sex reformers’ views of, 169
prude-calling, xv, 32, 95, 191,
194, 195; resistance to, 96
‘pseudohomosexuality’, see
under homosexuality
psychoanalytical ideas, 63, 112,
150, 169, 182–3, 191
punishment, 55–7, 58–9, 60,
64, 80
‘puritanism’, 186, 187, 191; see
also prude-calling
purity, social, see social purity
race and racism, 59–60, 145,
178–9, 180
Rackham, Mrs, 57
railway carriages, women-only,
63, 162–3
rape, 3, 20, 30–1, 71, 133–4
Rathbone, Eleanor, 146, 148,
151–3, 154, 163–4
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