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Feminism

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by Margaret Walters


  bel hooks, Feminist Theory from Margin to Centre (Boston: South End Press, 1984).

  Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (London: Paladin, 1971).

  Juliet Mitchell, Woman’s Estate (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 146

  1971) is essential reading for the ideas and strategies of ‘second-wave’

  feminism; on consciousness-raising, see pp. 61–3. See also her Psychoanalysis and Feminism (London: Allen Lane, 1974) and Women: The Longest Revolution (London: Virago, 1984).

  Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (New York: Morrow, 1970).

  Kate Millet, Sexual Politics (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970).

  Leslie B. Tanner (ed.), Voices from Women’s Liberation (New York: Signet Books/New American Library, 1971).

  Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (New York: Bantam, 1976), especially pp. 5, 346, 348; see also Brownmiller’s In Our Time: Memoirs of a Revolution (London: Aurum Press, 2000), particularly the essay ‘Rape is a Political Crime Against Women’, pp. 194–224.

  Catherine McKinnon, Only Words (London: HarperCollins, 1995), pp. 5, 28, 40.

  Chapter 10

  Referenc

  Audre Lorde, ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women es

  of Colour, ed. C. Moraga and F. Anzaldua (New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1983).

  Ien Ang, ‘I’m a Feminist but . . . ’, in Transitions: New Australian Feminisms, ed. B. Caine and R. Pringle (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1995).

  Mai Yaman (ed.), Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives (New York: New York University Press, 1996).

  Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds.), Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003); in particular, see Chandra Talpade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes’, pp. 49–74; and Reina Lewis, ‘On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Cross-Cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity’, pp. 520–41.

  ‘Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms’, Sonia E.

  Alvarez, Politics Department, University of California at Santa Cruz.

  CA95064 ( sonia@cats.ucsc.edu).

  Roads to Beijing: Fourth World Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Quito: Ediciones Flora Tristan).

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  Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild (eds.), Global Women: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy (London: Granta Books, 2003).

  Afterword

  Natasha Walter, The New Feminism (London: Virago, 1999).

  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
r />   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

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  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

  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)

  Melbou
rne, 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

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  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

 

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