Authors: Margaret Walters
Tags: #Social Science, #Feminism & Feminist Theory, #Anthropology, #Cultural, #History, #Social History, #Political Science, #Human Rights
Married Women’s Property
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Committee
58–9, 61
Martineau, Harriet
52–4, 60,
morality
16
More, Hannah
35
maternal death rate
120–1
motherhood
7–8, 59, 89, 93,
Matrimonial Causes Act
(1923)
88
Mott, Lucretia
46, 58
medicine,
see
doctors; nursing
MPs (Members of Parliament)
Melbourne, Lord
48
Meredith, George
55
Ms
magazine
105
Mexico
119–20
Muslim countries
123–32
Index
middle-class women
31, 40
consciousness-raising
112,
N
education
62
Navarre, Marguerite de
19
employment
56
Netherlands
73
myth
106
New Left activists
104
second-wave feminism
102,
New Zealand
73
Newcastle, Elizabeth
single women
59
Cavendish, Duchess of
18,
Women’s Liberation
movement
108
Nigeria
4, 125
militancy
80–4
Nightingale, Florence
49–52,
Mill, James
44, 45
Mill, John Stuart
43, 44, 45–7,
Norton, Caroline
48–9, 53, 55
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
pregnancy
8
press
1, 4, 75, 90
P
Prisoners’ Temporary
Pankhurst, Adela
83
Discharge Bill
83
Pankhurst, Christabel
75,
professions 88,
see also
doctors; teaching
Pankhurst, Emmeline
75, 77,
propaganda
78–9, 91
property
rights 42–3, 44, 48–9,
Pankhurst, Richard
72, 75
Pankhurst, Sylvia
78, 80, 85,
also
marriage
prophecy
12–14
minism
Fe
Parkes, Bessie Rayner
57–8,
prostitution
64–6, 88, 134
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,
Pepys, Samuel
22
Qur’an
131
Peru
121
Pethick Lawrence, Fred
and Emmeline
77, 78,
R
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
playwrights
23–5
Rathbone, Eleanor
88
police
86
Reform Act (1832)
69
156
Reformation
9, 28
Segal, Lynne,
Why Feminism?
Reid, Marion
68
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,
sects
6–16
sexual harassment
122, 127
Richardson, Mary
80
sexual intercourse
91, 115–16,
Richardson, Samuel
39
Roe, Humphrey
92
Sha’rawi, Hudu
127
Roman Catholic Church
119,
sharia law
125
Shelley, Mary
40
A Room of One’s Own
(Woolf )
Shrew
108
single women
57, 58, 59,
Rowbotham, Sheila
94, 106
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
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
suffragettes
1, 75–85
SDS (Students for a
suffragists
1, 68–74
Democratic Society)
104,
The Second Sex
(de Beauvoir)
T
taxation
69, 75
second-wave feminism
97–116,
Taylor, Harriet
45, 47, 68–9, 72
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
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
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
second-wave feminism
‘womanism’
1
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
women’s education
62–3,
Woolf, Virginia
1–2, 23, 24, 89,
unmarried mothers
89
working-class women
40, 108,
Updike, John
115
158
writers:
Wroth, Lady Mary
19–20
eighteenth century
26–40
WSPU (Women’s Social
nineteenth century
39, 47,
and Political Union)
playwrights
23–5
pre-eighteenth century
Y
young women
4–5,
Russian
134, 135
second-wave feminist
twentieth centur
y 89–90,
Z
94–6,
see also
novels
Zetkin, Clara
133
Index
159