The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

INDEX
180, 181–5; and
‘respectability’, 100; as
whole of ‘sex’, 52; women’s
experience of, 42, 52,
97–100, 157, 160–1, 171,
172, 179–80; see also sex
advice literature and under
heterosexuality
sexual libertarians, x–xi, xii, xiv
Sexual Offences, Report on
(Criminal Law Revision
Committee, 1984), 77n11
‘sexual revolutions’, 4, 165,
193, 194
sexuality, 2–3, 100, 196;
and gender, xi–xii; double
standard, see standards
(moral); feminist views, 27,
35–6; possible views on, xii,
186, 195–6; see also
heterosexuality, lesbianism
and male sexuality
Shaftesbury, Lord, 76, 77
Shaw, George Bernard, 44, 156,
187
Shield, The, 56, 57, 61, 64, 67,
69–70
Shirreff, Emily, 88
Sibthorp, Margaret Shurmer,
40–1
sickness, 35, 36–7; see also
medical ideas
Simons, Sir John, 76
Six Point Group, 150
Smith, Margery, 42
Smith, Sybil, Lady, 51
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll,
102n1, 103–4
social class, see class
‘social hygiene’, 134–5
Social Purity Alliance, 7, 8, 12,
19, 20, 22
social purity movement, 6–26,
51, 195; aims, 6; blaming
men, 24; clashes in, 21;
difficulty of finding later
equivalent, 7, 14, 195;
feminism and, 24–6, 195;
internationalism, 22–4; later
history, 25; men in, 6–7, 10,
13, 15, 21
social work, 151, 175
socialist feminism, 51, 150–1,
159, 195
Society for the Abolition of
State Regulation of Vice, 20
Society for the Suppression of
the Traffic in Girls, 20
soldiers, 59, 73, 166; and
‘nation’s health’, 134
soliciting, 20, 73, 74, 162
Somerset, Lady, 22
Somerset Maugham, W., 187
Spender, Dale, 27, 29, 158
The Spinster and Her Enemies:
criticism of, xii, xiii–xiv; and
history of lesbianism in
Britain, xiv
spinsters/spinsterhood, xiv,
86–100, 175, 196; as a
choice, 32, 88, 90; feminists
and, 12, 86, 88, 89, 148,
168; importance, 86, 92,
152, 175, 188; and
lesbianism, 100, 106;
numbers, 86, 188; opposition
to, 87, 89, 93–100, 138, 142–6,
148, 155, 164, 173–8, 180–
5, (from spinsters) 95, 149,
152, 175; Sex Reform
Congress (1929) and, 188;
as a tactic, 91–3, 146, 149;
as a threat, 112, 143–4, 176
standards, moral: double, ix, 7,
8–9, 16, 20, 98–9, 164;
equal, campaign for, 19, 20,
163; see also social purity
movement
Stead, W.T., 55, 72
Stekel, Wilhelm, 169–70, 177–8,
179, 181–3, 187
stereotypes, 108, 118, 178–9,
180–1, 188; see also under
lesbianism
Steward, Lucy, 48–9
Stocks, Mary, 151, 152
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