| The Spinster and Her Enemies Revised Edition Contributor(s): Jeffreys, Sheila (Author) |
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ISBN: 1875559639 ISBN-13: 9781875559633 Publisher: Spinifex Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: The Spinster and Her Enemies is an important book on a watershed period in the history of sexuality. "...splendidly documented, provocative and never dull" -- Times Literary Supplement "Sheila Jeffreys is an excellent historian". -- Sunday Times The much-anticipated re-release of this classic feminist text includes a revised and updated introduction. 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 the 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.57" W x 8.49" (0.48 lbs) 237 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |