The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
Re-Bartlett, Lucy, 41–2, 89–91
reform, sexual, see sex reform
movement
refuges, 10, 12; see also rescue
homes
Reich, Wilhelm, 186
religion: asceticism criticised
and connected with
feminism, 18, 49, 186;
feminists and, 148; and
marriage, 167; and social
purity movement, 7, 9, 13–14,
15, 24, 27, 38; see also
Church of England and
clergymen
reproduction, 38; see also
childbearing
rescue homes, 66–7; see also
refuges
Rescue Society, 77
Responsible Society, the, 7
‘revolutions, sexual’, see ‘sexual
revolutions’
Rhondda, Margaret, Lady, 151
Rich, Adrienne, 48
rights, civil, see civil rights
Roberts, Ursula, 50
Rowbotham, Sheila, 115, 116,
161
Royden, Maude, 80
Rubin, Gayle, xi–xii, xv
Russell, Bertrand, 156, 167, 178
Russell, Dora, 156, 158–9,
165, 187, 189
sadomasochism, x, xi, xii, xiii,
131–3
Sahli, Nancy, 105
schools, industrial, 66
Scots law, 76
sentencing, see punishment
servants, domestic, 87
sex advice literature, 115, 121,
128, 130, 131, 157, 166–7,
172
sex differences, ‘innate’, see
biological determinism
sex education, 18, 29, 187
sex industry: targeting lesbians,
xiv
Sex Offences, Departmental
Committee on, 56, 66–7, 68,
70, 85
sexology, ix–x, xi, xii, 105–11,
112–13, 115, 128, 144,
164; effects, 111, 113, 117,
121, 125, 135; see also
‘frigidity’ and sex reform
movement
Sex Psychology, British Society
for the Study of, 156
Sex Reform Congress (1929),
108, 128, 138, 159, 160,
179, 186–9
sex reform movement, 10, 52,
98, 121, 128–46, 156–161,
186–93; allies, 192; and
feminism, 132–8, 140–6,
148; and marriage, 166–9,
178–85, 192; and
motherhood, 136–44, 146;
and prostitution, 169;
resistance to, 169, 179, 189,
192, 193; see also sexology
sexual abuse of children, xii;
campaign against, ix
sexual abuse of girls, 6, 18, 55–7,
133, 149; campaigns
against, 6, 16, 54–5, 57–67,
74–85, (male supporters)
56; explanations, 67–70;
legal treatment, 55–7, 58–9,
60–4, 66–7; victim-blaming,
63–6; see also consent (age
of) and incest
sexual harassment, 3
sexual intercourse: effects, 36–7,
40, 49–50, 192; ideology of
‘necessity’, 44, 48–50, 95–6,
100, 120–1, 155–7, 160–1,
187–8,
(resistance to) 49–50, 92,
96, 99–100, 188, 189
(see also lesbianism and
spinsterhood); prescriptions
for, 130, 131, 169, 171,
234