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Married Women’s Property

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Committee
58–9, 61

28

Martineau, Harriet
52–4, 60,

morality
16

64, 71

More, Hannah
35

maternal death rate
120–1

motherhood
7–8, 59, 89, 93,

Matrimonial Causes Act

97, 120–1

(1923)
88

Mott, Lucretia
46, 58

medicine,
see
doctors; nursing

MPs (Members of Parliament)

Melbourne, Lord
48

87, 88

Meredith, George
55

Ms
magazine
105

Mexico
119–20

Muslim countries
123–32

Index

middle-class women
31, 40

consciousness-raising
112,

114

N

education
62

Navarre, Marguerite de
19

employment
56

Netherlands
73

myth
106

New Left activists
104

second-wave feminism
102,

New Zealand
73

117

Newcastle, Elizabeth

single women
59

Cavendish, Duchess of
18,

Women’s Liberation

20–3

movement
108

Nigeria
4, 125

militancy
80–4

Nightingale, Florence
49–52,

Mill, James
44, 45

64, 70–1

Mill, John Stuart
43, 44, 45–7,

Norton, Caroline
48–9, 53, 55

68–9, 71, 72

novels 32–3, 36, 38–40, 39, 47,

Miller, Henry
105

55,
see also
writers

Millett, Kate
105

NOW (National Organization

misogyny
3, 19

of Women)
102, 107

Miss World Contest,
see
beauty

nursing
50–2, 86

contests

NUSEC (National Union of

155

Societies for Equal

political rights 44, 45, 46, 47,

Citizenship)
87, 88

61, 130, 133,
see also

suffrage

O

politics
87–8, 105

Pope, Alexander
24–5

Orbach, Susie,
Fat is a

pornography
114, 115, 131

Feminist Issue
110

Potter, Beatrix
71

Osborne, Dorothy
23

poverty
134

Oxford University
63, 90,

preachers
10, 11–12

108

pregnancy
8

press
1, 4, 75, 90

P

Prisoners’ Temporary

Pankhurst, Adela
83

Discharge Bill
83

Pankhurst, Christabel
75,

professions 88,
see also

77–8, 83, 85, 87

doctors; teaching

Pankhurst, Emmeline
75, 77,

propaganda
78–9, 91

80, 81, 83, 85

property
rights 42–3, 44, 48–9,

Pankhurst, Richard
72, 75

54, 58–9, 61, 69–70,
see

Pankhurst, Sylvia
78, 80, 85,

also
marriage

86

prophecy
12–14

minism

Fe

Parkes, Bessie Rayner
57–8,

prostitution
64–6, 88, 134

59, 61

public speaking
74

parliament,
see
Houses of

Puerto Rica
120

Parliament

patriarchy
105, 119

Q

Paul, St
9

Quakers
10–11, 16, 17, 46, 68

pay and conditions
66–7, 88,

Queen’s College, London
62,

91, 108, 121

63

Pepys, Samuel
22

Qur’an
131

Peru
121

Pethick Lawrence, Fred

and Emmeline
77, 78,

R

83

racial discrimination
118, 121

photography
80

racism
105

Pix, Mary
23

Radcliffe, Ann
39, 47

Pizan, Christine de
19

rape
114–15, 120, 121, 122, 125,

plagiarism
25

131

playwrights
23–5

Rathbone, Eleanor
88

police
86

Reform Act (1832)
69

156

Reformation
9, 28

Segal, Lynne,
Why Feminism?

Reid, Marion
68

139

A Plea for Women
41–3

Sex Discrimination (Removal)

religion:

Act (1919)
88

Islam
123–32

sexism
118

Roman Catholic Church
119,

sexual double standard
30,

120

64–5, 66

sects
6–16

sexual harassment
122, 127

Richardson, Mary
80

sexual intercourse
91, 115–16,

Richardson, Samuel
39

120

Roe, Humphrey
92

Sha’rawi, Hudu
127

Roman Catholic Church
119,

sharia law
125

120

Shelley, Mary
40

A Room of One’s Own
(Woolf )

Shrew
108

94–6

single women
57, 58, 59,

Rowbotham, Sheila
94, 106

69–70, 88

Rural Women Workers

Six Point Group
88

Movement (Brazil)
121

slavery
44, 46–7, 119

Russia
132–4, 135

Smith, Barbara Leigh
56

Index

Smith, Mary
69

S

Smyth, Ethel
76

socialists
133

Sancroft, William,

The Spectator
71–2

Archbishop of Canterbury

Speght, Rachel
10

27

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
46

Sanger, Margaret
91, 92, 93

Steinem, Gloria
105

Sarachild, Kathie
110

stoning
131

Sartre, Jean-Paul
101

Stopes, Marie
91–2

Saudi Arabia
129–30

strikes
66–7, 91, 108, 132

Sayers, Dorothy L.
90

suffrage
43, 61, 71–4, 86, 120,

Schurmann, Anne Marie van

133, 135

19

suffragettes
1, 75–85

SDS (Students for a

suffragists
1, 68–74

Democratic Society)
104,

107

The Second Sex
(de Beauvoir)

T

98–100

taxation
69, 75

second-wave feminism
97–116,

Taylor, Harriet
45, 47, 68–9, 72

137, 139

Tchaikowsky circle
132

157

teachers
88, 90

V

teaching
28, 60, 129

veiling
123, 125, 127, 129–31

Temple, Sir William
23

Vicars, John
11

Thatcher, Margaret
138

Victoria, Queen
59, 71

Themis
(education

Vindication of the Rights of

organization)
121

Woman
(Wollstonecraft)

‘Third World’ feminism

30, 33–6

118–23, 134

votes
see
political rights;

Thomas, Keith
10

suffrage

Thompson, William
43–5, 68

Time and Tide
(magazine)
89

trade unionism
66, 87, 133

W

Trapnel, Anna
14

Walter, Natasha,
The New

Trotter, Catherine
23

Feminism
137–8

Truth, Sojourner
46

Ward, Mrs Humphrey
70, 71

Turkey
123, 125, 127, 129

welfare
16

Wells, H. G.
89

West, Rebecca
1, 88, 95, 140

U

Wheeler, Anna
43–4, 68

unemployment 90,
see also

WI (Women’s Institute)
87

minism

Fe

employment

widowhood
88, 89

United Nations
97, 121, 123

Wilkingson, Ellen
87

United States
91

Wintringham, Margaret
87

black Americans
46, 102,

witchcraft
13, 14

105

Wolf, Naomi:

‘discursive colonization’
118

The Beauty Myth
110

feminists on rape
115–16

Fire with Fire
139

nineteenth-century

Wollstonecraft, Mary
30–40,

feminism
46, 58

42, 44–5, 52

second-wave feminism

‘womanism’
1

102–6, 107

womanliness 41–2, 43, 47,
see
women doctors
60–1, 63

also
femininity

women’s suffrage
73

Women’s Liberation
3, 104

universities:

women’s rights
33–6, 42–55,

academic feminism
139–41

97, 118–23

women’s education
62–3,

Woolf, Virginia
1–2, 23, 24, 89,

90, 130

90, 94–6

unmarried mothers
89

working-class women
40, 108,

Updike, John
115

120–1, 133

158

writers:

Wroth, Lady Mary
19–20

eighteenth century
26–40

WSPU (Women’s Social

nineteenth century
39, 47,

and Political Union)

49, 55, 57

75–85

playwrights
23–5

pre-eighteenth century

Y

19–23

young women
4–5,

Russian
134, 135

140

second-wave feminist

98–116

twentieth centur
y 89–90,

Z

94–6,
see also
novels

Zetkin, Clara
133

Index

159

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