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Available
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Publication
London ; Boston : Pandora Press, 1985.
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 1880's and 1890's. 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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LibraryThing member tole_lege
Well worth reading if you are interested in the way women have been treated in and by history - this is an examination of particularly Victorian unmarried women.
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Original publication date
1985 (1st edition)
Physical description
vii, 232 p.; 20 cm
ISBN
9780863580505