Girl Trouble (48 page)

sex education,
106
,
127
,
183
–
7

sexism in education system,
198
–
20
0

sexual abuse,
208

sexual knowledge, seen as corrupting,
35

sexual morality, standards of,
44

sexual revolution,
159
–
60
,
168
,
179
,
196

sexualisation,
2
,
233
,
250
; use of term,
223
–
8

sexuality,
71
,
93
,
96
,
106
,
134
,
156
,
164
,
165
–
6
,
175
,
178
,
185
–
6
; in girls' magazines,
203
; initiative in,
37
; male,
185
; outside marriage,
100
–
1
; pre-marital experiences,
36
,
163
–
4
,
189
; self-expression,
2
; sexual hibernation,
126

sexually transmitted diseases,
12
–
1
3,
182
–
3
,
244
; in armed forces,
107
; medical examination for,
27

Sharpe, Sue,
206
;
Just Like a Girl …
,
201
–
2

Shaw, George Bernard,
54
;
Mrs Warren's Profession
,
50

Shocking Pink
,
204

Short, Don,
177

Shute, Nerina,
We Mixed Our Drinks
,
102

Sibly, Franklin,
92

Sicilian men,
120

Sidgwick, Henry,
47

Sidgwick, Mrs,
57

Signoret, Simone,
164

Simms, Madeleine,
192

Simon, Jocelyn,
170

single-sex groupings,
213

Slutwalk,
240

Smith, Christopher,
192

‘Smith, Mary',
85
–
6
,
215
–
16

Smith, Tony,
217

smoking, by women,
76
,
77
,
83
,
231

Snagge, Thomas,
18

Snowdrop
,
The
,
30

Snowdrop Bands,
29
–
3
0

Soames, Olave St Clair,
Training Girls as Guides
,
73

Social Purity Alliance,
31

social workers,
26

soldiers, girls' flirting with,
72

Somerville College,
47

Spare Rib
,
194
,
201
,
204

Spencer, Herbert,
241

Spencer, Victoria,
218

Spice Girls,
211

Spilsbury, Bernard,
97

sporting activities, gendered,
199

Springfield, Dusty,
155

St Trinian's,
164

Starbuck, Winifred,
63

Stead, W. T.,
18
,
27
,
53
–
4
; ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon',
40

Steele, David,
168

Steele, Tommy,
157

Steinem, Gloria,
196

Stepney, London,
142
–
4

Stevenson, Betsey, with Justin Wolfers, ‘The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness',
222

Stonham, Lord,
144

Stopes, Marie,
103
;
Married Love
,
100
;
Wise Parenthood
,
100

Strachey, Ray,
87
;
The Cause
,
44

Street Offences Act (1959),
142
,
146

Strindberg, August,
50

strip shows,
144
,
145
,
165

students, as adults,
173

suffrage movement,
33
,
39
,
41
,
42
,
58
–
6
4,
82
,
243
; Coronation 1911 demonstration,
59
,
62
; hunger strikes,
59
see also
forced feeding, of women

Sweeting, Helen,
221

swimming,
91
–
2
; mixed bathing,
91
–
2

Tait, Robert Lawson,
55

teacher training colleges,
236

teaching, as job for women,
131

Teather, Sarah,
226

teenage slang,
140

television,
153

Telfer, Elizabeth (‘Nurse Betty'),
14

Tennant, Emma,
Girlitude
,
129

Terrot, Charles,
40

Tesco's, pole-dancing kits,
223
–
4
,
232

Thatcher, Margaret,
184
,
198
,
199

Thewlis, Dora,
61

thinness,
232

Thomas, M. Carey,
67

Thompson, Edith,
94
–
6

Thompson, J. Lee,
As Long as They're Happy
,
139

Thompson, Percy,
94
–
6

Thorburn, John,
55

Tinkler, Penny,
227

Touche, Rose la,
30

Townsend, Mrs,
28

Toynbee, Polly,
233

Traffic in Souls
,
19

trafficking of women,
11
,
17
; urban myths of,
23
–
5

travelling alone,
173

Tushingham, Rita,
136

Tweedie, Jill,
129
–
30
,
131

Tweedie, Mrs Alec,
71
–
2

Tyler, Melissa,
233
–
4

UK Feminista organisation,
239

ukfeminista.org.uk
,
239

unisex fashions,
182

University College,
85

University of London,
47

unmarried women,
45

Valenti, Jessica,
239
,
240

Valentino, Rudolph,
90
,
159

vampire women,
81

venereal disease
see
sexually transmitted diseases

Veness, Thelma,
123

Veuille, Reggie de,
80

victimhood,
227
,
232
,
253
–
4
; refusal of,
238

violence: against women and girls,
208
,
226
,
239
,
249
; sexual,
1
,
2

virginity,
102
,
103
,
164
,
179
–
80
; loss of,
28
,
34
,
165

Viz
,
209

votes for women,
4
,
40
,
44
,
58
–
6
4,
70
–
1
,
242
,
244
,
252
see also
suffragette movement

vulnerability of women,
40
–
1
,
97

wages for housework,
253

Walkerdine, Valerie,
200
,
202

Walter, Natasha,
234
;
Living Dolls
,
214
,
232
–
3

war work of women,
70

Ward, Stephen,
147
,
149

wards of court,
169
–
70
,
246

Waugh, Benjamin,
18

Webb, Beatrice,
23

Weiner, Gaby,
235

West, Patrick, with Helen Sweeting, ‘Fifteen, Female and Stressed',
221

West, Rebecca,
59
,
254

Weston, Kathleen,
99

‘Wharton, Jane'
see
Lytton, Constance

Whedon, Joss,
238

White, James,
191
,
194

White, Pearl,
89

White Crusade,
33

white flowers, symbolism of,
29

White Ribbon Bands,
29
–
3
0

white slavery,
4
,
11
–
4
1,
67
,
80
,
120
,
151
,
254
; use of term,
23
see also
trafficking of women

Whitehorn, Katharine,
172
;
Cooking in a Bedsitter
,
161

Whitehouse, Mary,
180
–
1
,
183
,
184
,
187
,
227

Whiteread, Rachel,
238

Whiting, Audrey,
189

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler,
30

Wilkins, Leslie,
123

Wilkinson, Helen,
No Turning Back …
,
249

Willcocks, H. D.,
118

Williams, Tennessee,
Baby Doll
,
126

Williamson, Reverend,
142
–
3
,
151

Willis, W. N.,
16
–
1
7; with Olive C. Malvery,
White Slaves in a Piccadilly Flat
,
16
,
20
–
1

Wilson, Amrit,
Finding a Voice
,
201
–
2

Windeyer, Brian,
188

Withers-Moore, Dr,
55

Wolf, Naomi,
216
,
218
,
232
,
250
;
The Beauty Myth
,
212

Wolfenden Report,
145
–
6

Wolfers, Justin,
222

Women and Education Group (WedG),
201

Women's Employment Federation,
87

Women's League of Health and Beauty,
91

women's liberation,
175
–
21
0

women's liberation movement,
7
,
8
,
193
,
196
,
205
,
210
,
247

Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),
58
,
61
,
63
,
70
,
244

Woolworth,
225

working-class women and girls,
89
,
93
,
112
,
122
–
4
,
132
,
152
–
3
,
164
,
168
,
242
; and education,
59
,
64
,
207
; employment of,
84
; in suffrage movement,
60
–
1

www.aboutface.org
,
239

www.thefword.org.uk
,
239

Yellow Peril,
80

Yellow Teddy Bears (Gutter Girls)
,
165

Young, Phyllis,
120
–
1

young women: representation of,
2
–
3
(as victims,
4
; as innocent,
8
)