Girl Trouble (45 page)

Bell, Ernest A.,
27
;
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls …
,
21

Bennett, Arnold,
97
;
Our Women
,
98

Billington-Greig, Teresa,
23
,
38
; ‘The Truth about White Slavery',
23
–
4

binge drinking,
223

birth control,
166
,
189

bisexuality,
187

bitchmagazine.org
,
240

Black, Cilla,
173
–
4

Black American servicemen,
108

Black women,
145

Blakely, David,
119

Blanchard, Phyllis,
69

blogging,
239

Blume, Judy,
Forever
,
203
–
4

Blunkett, David,
229

Board of Education,
83

bodies of women,
55
–
6

body obsessions,
2
,
213
–
21
,
250

Boer War,
64

Bondfield, Margaret,
23

Boone, Pat,
152

Booth, General Bramwell,
22

Booth, Mrs Bramwell,
23

Boston Women's Health Collective,
Our Bodies, Ourselves
,
194
,
195

Bourne, Aleck,
167

Box, Muriel,
Too Young to Love
,
178

Box, Sidney,
113
–
16

Boy Scouts,
72
–
3

boys: failure of,
236
–
7
; licence of,
2

Brailsford, Jane,
62

Brighton,
113
,
140
,
151
; as holiday town,
108

Bristow, Edward,
22

British Board of Film Censors,
114

British Medical Association,
56
,
183

British Medical Journal,
117
–
18
,
194

British Pregnancy Advisory Service,
190

Brittain, Vera,
26
,
63

Brook Advisory Centres,
189

Brooks, Rosa,
225

Brophy, Brigid,
186

Brown, Caroline,
Lost Girls
,
129

Browne, Robert,
189

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs,
The Body Project …
,
213

Bryant, Sophie (née Willcock),
49
–
5
0

Buckingham, David,
The Impact of the Commercial World on Children's Wellbeing
,
226

Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
238

bulimia nervosa
,
219

Bullock, F. S.,
24

Burden, Betty,
122

Burmby, Detective-Sergeant,
14

Burt, Cyril,
93
,
107
,
118

Buss, Frances Mary,
47
,
49
–
5
0,
56

Butler, Josephine,
18
,
47

Butler, Joyce,
198

Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth,
208

Bywaters, Freddy,
94
–
6

Cambridge, University of, admission of women students,
247
–
8

Cameron, David,
225
,
226

Cameron, Frederick,
158

Campaigning against Sexism and Sexual Oppression in Education (Cassoe),
201

Campbell, Janet,
68

cannabis,
141
,
150

Cardiff, Jack,
Girl on a Motorcycle/Naked under Leather
,
177

Carey, Tanith,
Where Has My Little Girl Gone?
,
226

Carleton, Billie,
79
–
8
0

Caron, Leslie,
136

Carpenter, Reverend,
31

Carroll, Madeleine,
103

Carstairs, G. M.,
163

Cashmore, Ellis,
207

Cavell, Edith,
89

Chang, ‘Brilliant',
80

chastity,
185
; as property value,
250

child custody,
44

Childline,
209

Children and Young Persons Act (1933),
105

‘Children's Waggon',
119

Childs, W. M.,
92

Chinese men,
79
,
80

Chorley, Katherine,
65

Church Army,
106

cinema,
83
,
86
,
137
–
42
; American film values,
111
,
112

cinema-going,
5
,
19
,
76
,
89
–
9
0,
92
,
107
,
110

Clark, Alan,
194

Clarke, Edward,
Sex in Education
,
54
–
6

Cleft Chin murder case,
108

Cleveland child abuse scandal,
208

Clinton, Bill,
149

Clough, Anne Jemima,
47
,
53

Clouston, T. S.,
56

clubs,
140
–
5
,
150
–
1
see also
jazz clubs

coffee bars,
140
,
150
,
245

Cohen, Stanley,
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
,
251

Cole, Margaret,
66

Cole, Martin,
Growing Up
,
184

Collins, Joan,
140

consciousness-raising groups,
196

consumerism, spending-power of women,
93

Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866),
27

contraception,
106
,
143
,
163
,
166
,
167
,
182
,
188
,
192
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
196
,
252
; pill,
168
,
188
,
246
(prescribing of,
192
–
3
)

Cook, Hera,
168

cookery, teaching of,
68
,
127

Coote, W. A.,
19
,
27

corporal punishment,
116
–
17

Corrie, John,
205

Cosh Boy
,
140

cosmetic surgery,
212

cosmetics,
74
,
77
–
8
,
103
,
125
,
129
,
131
–
2
,
133
,
139
,
155
,
158
,
245

Cosmopolitan
,
161
,
204

Cox, Sara,
229

Crackenthorpe, Blanche Alethea, ‘The Revolt of the Daughters',
42

Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885),
18

Criminal Law Amendment Act (1912),
14
,
22
,
23
,
38

Cripps, Anthony,
198

Crisp, Arthur,
217
,
219
,
220

Crowther Report,
128

curriculum, consolidated,
236
,
247

Curry, Inspector,
14
,
19

cycling,
91

dance halls,
89

dancing,
95
,
122

Dane, Clemence
see
Ashton, Winifred

Dangers of False Prudery
,
The
,
27
–
8

David, Miriam,
235

Davies, Emily,
46
,
53
,
56

debutantes,
5
,
129

degrees awarded to women,
47

Delaney, Shelagh,
A Taste of Honey
,
135
–
6

Delon, Alain,
177

Demos think tank,
223

Denning, Lord,
180

Dennis, Felix,
182

Diana, Princess,
218

digital revolution,
254

divorce,
172

doctors: male,
195
; women as,
56
,
84
,
237

dole school,
86

dolly birds,
137
–
74
passim

domestic duties of women,
43
–
4
,
45
,
73
,
84
,
98
,
103
,
122
,
127
,
128
,
199
; rejection of,
228
; wages for,
253

domestic science classes,
64
,
68
,
128

domestic service,
1
,
84
–
7
,
98
–
9
,
242
,
251
; refusal of,
4
–
5
,
244

Dorries, Nadine,
226

Dors, Diana,
115
,
120
,
139

Downward Paths
,
36
–
9

dress of women,
52
,
76
,
95
,
122
,
158
; court shoes,
131
; dress codes in universities,
173
; dressing ‘like sluts',
240
; fashion,
91
,
103
–
4
,
107
(girls' love of,
37
); leather jackets,
154
; nylon stockings,
245
; sartorial policing,
182
; school uniforms,
114; silk stockings,
112
; trousers banned for girls,
199
see also
Rational Dress

drinking
see
alcohol, drinking of

drugs,
80
,
102
,
144
,
145
,
176
,
177
,
231
; addiction to,
178

Duffy, Maureen,
That's How It Was
,
132

Dunbar, John,
176

Dunne, Mary Chavelita,
50
–
1

Durham, M. G.,
The Lolita Effect
,
214
,
224

Dworkin, Andrea,
209

Dyer, Alfred S.,
18

Eastwood, Annie,
56
,
58

eating disorders,
212
–
13
,
214
see also
self-starvation

Ede, Chuter,
114

Edgecombe, Johnny,
147

education,
1
,
3
,
42
–
3
,
45
,
46
,
95
–
6
,
98
,
124
–
5
,
128
–
32
; coeducation,
81
; damaging to girls' reproductive potential,
54
,
64
,
243
; girls' performance in,
206
,
223
,
235
–
7
,
248
–
9
,
251
; higher,
206
(women in,
236
,
251
–
2
; women's colleges,
248
); lessening likelihood of marriage,
65
; of middle-class girls,
47
–
8
,
57
; of working-class girls,
64
; primary,
235
; school uniform,
165
(regulations,
125
); sexism in,
198
–
20
0; single-sex,
181
,
198
–
9
; transformation of,
247
see also
approved schools
and
school leaving age

Education Act (1870),
45

Education Act (1944),
132
,
205
,
247

Ehrenreich, Barbara,
159
,
222

Eliza, mother of Dora Thewlis,
61

Ellen, Barbara,
225
,
229
–
30

Ellis, Ruth,
119

elopement,
169
–
70

embroidery, teaching of,
68

Emin, Tracey,
238

employment of women,
86
–
7
,
237
; shortage of jobs,
84

empowerment,
3
,
233

endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk
,
240

equal pay,
197

Equal Pay Act (1970),
197

‘Erskine, Rosalind',
The Passion Flower Hotel
,
165
see also
Longrigg, Roger Erskine

‘Essex girl',
227
–
8

eugenics,
79

Eve's Film Review
,
90
,
93

examinations,
46
,
83

Fabian, Robert,
119
–
20
,
121

factory girls,
111

Fair Shares for the Fair Sex
,
198

Faith, Adam,
137

Faithfull, Marianne,
175
–
8
,
231
; ‘As Tears Go By',
175

fallen girls, repentance of,
34

Family Law Reform Act (1969),
6
,
172
–
3
,
246

Family Planning Association,
184

fan behaviour,
159