The Spinster and Her Enemies

by Sheila Jeffreys

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781875559633
Publisher:	Spinifex Press
Publication date:	10/28/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Splendidly documented, provocative, never dull." —Phyllis Grosskurth, Times Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

Splendidly documented, provocative, never dull.
—Phyllis Grosskurth

Times Literary Supplement