Feminism (21 page)

Naomi Wolf,
Fire with Fire
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1993).

Germaine Greer,
The Whole Woman
(London: Doubleday, 1999).

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Further Reading

Christine Bolt,
Feminist Ferment: ‘The Woman Question’ in the USA
and England, 1870–1940
(London: UCL Press, 1995) John Charvet,
Feminism
(London: Dent, 1982) Susan Faludi,
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1992)

Estelle B. Freedman,
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and
the Future of Women
(London: Profile Books, 2002) Sarah Gamble (ed.),
The Routledge Companion to Feminism and
Postfeminism
(London: Routledge, 2001) Germaine Greer,
The Female Eunuch
(London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1970)

Germaine Greer,
The Whole Woman
(London: Transworld Publishers, 2000)

Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires (eds.),
Feminisms
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Helena Kennedy,
Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice
(London: Vintage, 2005)

Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone (eds.),
Radical
Feminism
(New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973)

Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds.),
Feminist Postcolonial Theory
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003)

Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick (eds.),
Feminist Theory and the Body:
A Reader
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) 149

Sheila Rowbotham,
The Past is Before Us: Feminism in Action since the
1960s
(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990) Sheila Rowbotham,
A Century of Women: The History of Women in
Britain and the United States
(London: Viking, 1997) Marsha Rowe (ed.),
Spare Rib Reader
(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982)

Jennifer Mather Saul,
Feminism: Issues and Arguments
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Lynne Segal,
Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on
Contemporary Feminism
(London: Virago Press, 1987) Lynne Segal,
Why Feminism?
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999) Bonnie G. Smith,
Global Feminisms since 1945
(London: Routledge, 2000)

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Index

Bernard of Clairvaux
6

Besant, Annie
66–7, 91

Bible
9–10, 11, 18

A

Billington, Teresa
77, 78, 82–3,

83

abortion
94, 99, 108, 110, 120,

black Americans
46, 102,

121, 123, 130

105

academic feminism
139–41

Blackwell, Elizabeth
60–1,

Adam and Eve
9, 10, 18

63–4

Adams, John
30

Blood, Fanny
31

adultery
48, 131

Bodichon, Eugene
58

Africa
125

Bolshevik Revolution
134

Algren, Nelson
101

Bourigue, Antonia
13

Amberley, Lady
74

Bradlaugh, Charles
91

Amin, Ghassem,
Freedom of

Bradstreet, Anne
18

Women
129

Brazil
118, 121, 122

Anabaptists
15

Bright, Jacob
75

Ang, Ien
117

Brontë, Charlotte
49, 55

Anger, Jane
9

Brontë sisters
47

anorexia
110

Brown, Rita Mae
107

Anthony, Susan B.
77

Browne, Stella
94

anti-slavery movement
46, 58

Brownmiller, Susan,
Against

arson
80

Our Will
114–15

Ascham, Roger
17

Bryant and May
66–7, 91

Astell, Mary
26–9, 42

Bunyan, John
11

Astor, Lady
87

Burney, Fanny
39, 47

The
Athenaeum
1

Butler, Josephine
64–6

Austen, Jane
39, 47

Australia
73

C

Cambridge University
62, 63,

B

90

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
57

cancer
110

beauty contests
4, 108, 109,

Carlyle, Thomas
70

125

Carmichael, Stokely
105

Beauvoir, Simone de
98–101

Cavendish, Elizabeth
see

Becker, Lydia
72, 75

Newcastle, Duchess of

Bedford College, London
62,

charity schools
28

63

child custody
48, 58, 88, 130,

Behn, Aphra
24–5

131

151

childcare
2, 20, 108

domestic violence
120, 121, 122

children
36, 44, 121

Drummond, Flora
77

guardianship of
88, 89

Dworkin, Andrea
115–16

civil service
88, 90

Civil War
13, 18

E

class struggle
106, 118, 133

education
17–18, 31

Cobbe, Frances Power
54, 61,

eighteenth century
31

69, 74

eighteenth century writers

colonialism
118–19

on
30, 32, 34–5

‘consciousness-raising’
110,

Josephine Butler on
64

112, 114

Langham Place group
59, 61,

Contagious Diseases Acts

62–3

(1864, 1866, 1869)
64,

Marion Reid on
42

65–6

Mary Astell on
27–9

contraception
91–4, 108, 110,

middle class
31, 54

121, 123, 130

in Muslim countries
130

convents
6, 28

Reformation and
9, 28

cosmetic surgery
110

in ‘Third World’
120

Cowley, Hannah
35

university
62–3, 90, 130

Crimean War
50–2

minism

Virginia Woolf on
94–5

Fe

Cromwell, Oliver
14

Egypt
127, 129

Eliot, George
55, 57, 59

D

Elizabeth I, Queen
17

The
Daily Chronicle
1

Ellison, Grace,
An English

Daily Mail
75

Woman in a Turkish

Davies, Emily
61–3, 71, 74

Harem
123, 125, 127

Davis, Lady Eleanor
13–14

employment
2

Davison, Emily Wilding
82

exploitation
66–7

Denmark
73

health care
50–2, 57, 58,

Denny, Lord
20

60–1, 63–4, 86, 129

Diaz, President Porfirio
119

Langham Place group on
56,

dieting
110

57, 59–62

Din, Naxira Zain al
127

middle class
56

Disraeli, Benjamin
43

professional
88

Dissenters
10, 31

war-time
86

divorce
47, 88, 120, 130, 131

encuentros
122–3

Divorce Reform Act (1857)
49

engagements
58

doctors
57, 58, 60–1, 63–4, 129

England
106, 107, 114, 129

152

English Women’s Journal

Garrett, Elizabeth
61, 63–4, 72,

59–60, 61

83

equality
15, 19, 86, 108, 138

Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth
55, 57

Friedan on
102

Gates, Reginald
91, 93

Kollontai on
135

Genet, Jean
105

Mill on
46, 47

genital mutilation
123, 124,

Muslim countries
129–30

125

NUSEC
87, 88

Germany
1, 7

Thompson on
44

Girton College, Cambridge

Evans, Katherine and Chevers,

62–3

Sarah
11

Gissing, George
55

Evans, Mary Ann (George

Gladstone, William
75

Eliot)
55, 57, 59

Godwin, William
36, 38, 40

Gothic novels
39, 40

F

Gouges, Olympe de
34

Gournay, Marie de
19

Faludi, Susan
137

Greer, Germaine:

Fell, Margaret
11–12

The Female Eunuch
106

The Female Eunuch
(Greer)

The Whole Woman
138

In

106

dex

Griffin, Susan,
Pornography

The Feminine Mystique

and Silence
114

(Friedan)
102

Grimke, Sarah and Angelina

femininity
33–5, 41, 49, 52, 56,

46

99, 101, 115

groups
108–14, 122–3, 132, 136

Ferrier, Susan
47

Ladies National Association

fiction,
see
novels

64–6

Fifth Monarchists
13, 14

‘Ladies of Langham Place’

Firestone, Shulamith
106, 112

49, 56–64, 71–4

First World War
85, 86

WSPU (Women’s Social and

Fisk, Robert
140–1

Political Union)
75–7

France
129

guardianship
88, 89

Freedman, Estelle
3

French Revolution
38, 44

Freud, Sigmund
105

H

Friedan, Betty
102–3, 107

Hamun, Zegreb,
A Turkish

Woman’s European

G

Impressions
125, 127

Galindo de Topete, Hermila

Hardie, Keir
78

119–20

harems
123, 125, 127

153

health issues
110, 121

Khomeini, Ayatollah
130

‘hembrismo’
119

Killigrew, Thomas
25

Hildegard of Bingen
6–7

Knight, Anne
68

hooks, bell
102, 105

Kollontai, Alexandra
134, 135

Houses of Parliament
15–16,

71, 73, 74, 75, 87, 88, 127

L

housework
2, 9, 16, 42, 59, 87,

Ladies National Association

106, 134, 138

64–6

human rights
97

Langham Place group
49,

hunger strikers
78, 83, 84

56–64, 71–4

Hunt, Henry ‘Orator’
69

Lanyer, Aemilia
9–10

Lanzmann, Claude
101

I

Latin America
118, 119, 134

Imlay, Gilbert
38

Lawal, Amina
125, 126

immigrants
134–6

Lawrence, D. H.
105

industrial action
108, 132

Leigh Smith, Barbara
57–9, 61,

Infants Custody Act (1838)
48

62, 71–2

international conferences
97,

Lennox, Duke of
15

122, 123, 133

lesbian feminism
107, 114

minism

International Women’s Day

Levellers
15–16

Fe

133–4

local government
87–8

Internet
139

London Society for Women’s

Interregnum
13, 14

Suffrage
72

Iran
129, 130–1

Lorde, Audre
117

Islam fundamentalists
125

lunacy
13–14

Lytton, Lady Constance
83

J

M

Jameson, Anna
58

Joel (prophet)
12–13

Macaulay, Catherine
30–1

Johnson, Dr
30

Macaulay, Rose
89

Johnson, Joseph
32

‘machismo’
119, 122

Johnston, Jill
107

McKinnon, Catherine
115–16

Julian of Norwich
7–8

magazines
88–9, 91, 105, 119

‘mail-order’ brides
134

Mailer, Norman
105

K

Makin, Bathsua
18

Kempe, Margery
8

male suffrage
69, 70

Kenney, Annie
77, 83, 85

Malthusian League
91

154

Mama, Amina
125

Mitchell, Juliet
106, 112

Manley, Mary
23–4

Mitchell, Juliet and Oakley,

marital rape
122

Ann
3, 137

Markham, Violet
71

MLF (Mouvement de

marriage 28, 30, 36, 39, 55, 88,

Libération des Femmes)

92, 106, 130,
see also

99

property rights

modesty
11, 16, 20–1, 30

marriage law
45, 53, 58–9

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
118