The Spinster and Her Enemies

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Author: Sheila Jeffreys ISBN: 9781742194691
Publisher: Spinifex Press Publication: October 28, 1997
Imprint: Spinifex Press Language: English
Author: Sheila Jeffreys
ISBN: 9781742194691
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Publication: October 28, 1997
Imprint: Spinifex Press
Language: English

Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined, and asserts that the decline of this feminism was due largely to the promotion of a sexual ideology which was hostile to women’s independence. The circumstances about which she writes are frighteningly familiar in the present political climate.

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Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined, and asserts that the decline of this feminism was due largely to the promotion of a sexual ideology which was hostile to women’s independence. The circumstances about which she writes are frighteningly familiar in the present political climate.

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