ABSTRACT

First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms.

chapter I|7 pages

Introduction

part 1|65 pages

Male Doctors on Sexuality

chapter 1|16 pages

Isaac Baker Brown

from On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy and Hysteria in Females (1866)

chapter 2|15 pages

Issac Baker Brown

from On Some Diseases of Woman Admitting Surgical Treatment (1866)

chapter 3|15 pages

William Acton

from Prostitution Considered in its Social and Sanitary Aspects (1870)

chapter 4|17 pages

William Acton

from Functions and Disorders of Reproductive Organs (1875)

part 2|142 pages

Feminist Campaigns around Sexuality A Prostitution

chapter 5|14 pages

Harriet Martineau

The Contagious Diseases Acts as Applied to Garrison Towns and Naval Stations (1863)

chapter 6|9 pages

Annie Besant

The Legalisation of Female Slavery in England (1876)

chapter 7|11 pages

Elizabeth Blackwell

Rescue work in Relation toProstitution and Disease (1881)

chapter 8|40 pages

Josephine Butler

An Appeal to the People of England on the Recognitionand Superintendence of Prostitution by Governments (1870)

chapter 9|19 pages

Josephine Butler

Letter to my Countrywomen, Dwelling in the Farmsteadsand Cottages of England (1871)

chapter 10|20 pages

Josephine Butler

Social Purity (n.d.)

chapter 11|1 pages

Theassociation formoral and social hygiene

Founded byjosephine butler 1870 Objects:

chapter 13|1 pages

Will you help us?

chapter 14|5 pages

Ladies' National Association

What It Is, and Why It IsStill Needed (n.d.)

chapter 15|7 pages

Ladies' National Association

Compulsory Detention inLock Wards (n.d.)

chapter 16|7 pages

Katherine Dixon

A Straight Talk to Men by a Woman: Address to Soldiers (1916)

chapter 17|7 pages

Helena M. Swanwick

Committee of Inquiry into Sexual Morality (1918)

part 2b|62 pages

B Domestic Violence

chapter 18|35 pages

Frances Power Cobbe

Wife-torture in England (1878)

chapter 19|6 pages

Ellen Webb

Temperance in the Home (1881)

chapter 20|11 pages

Frances Swiney

Alcohol (1917)

chapter 21|9 pages

Maria Adelaide Lowndes

Child Assault in England (n.d.)

part 2c|58 pages

C Suffrage and Sexuality

chapter 22|12 pages

Ursula Roberts

The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage (1912)

chapter 23|17 pages

Lucy Re-Bartlett from

Sex and Sanctity (1912)

chapter 24|27 pages

Christabel Pankhurst

from The Great Scourge and How to End It (1913)

chapter 25|12 pages

Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme Elmy

from Phases of Love (1897)

chapter 26|38 pages

Elizabeth Blackwell

from The Moral Education of the Young in Relation to Sex (1879)

chapter 27|55 pages

Annie Besant

Marriage: As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be (1882)

chapter 28|12 pages

Ellice J. Hopkins

from The Power of Womanhood (1899)

chapter 29|10 pages

Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Education in Love (1912)

chapter 30|21 pages

Frances Swiney

The Bar of Isis or The Law of the Mother (1912)

chapter 31|14 pages

Beatrice Webb

(1918)

chapter 3b|67 pages

B The Impact of Sex Reform

chapter 32|29 pages

Havelock Ellis

Love and Pain (1913)

chapter 33|17 pages

Margaret Sanger

Family Limitation (1914)

chapter 34|19 pages

Marie C. Stopes

from Married Love (1918)

chapter p3c|42 pages

C Mothers, Spinsters, Lesbians

chapter 35|29 pages

Ellen Key

from The Woman Movement (1912)

chapter 36|4 pages

The Spinster

By One The Freewoman 23 November 1911

chapter 37|7 pages

Stella Browne

Studies in Feminine Inversion (1923)