Nico’s Reviews > Spinster and Her Enemies, The: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930 > Status Update

Regarding the impacts of the First World War and nuclear armament on feminist organizing:

The phenomenon of mass male aggression seems consistently to drive women into a defensive position where they must struggle to maintain such principles as the continued existence of human life on earth.

So true. Today it applies to Trump’s paramilitary goons & climate change & more…

It is clear that we must look at the area of sexuality, not as merely a sphere of personal fulfillment, but as a battleground ... The effect of the 'sexual revolution' was to cripple the feminist campaign to assert woman's right to control her body, and to exist, as [Elizabeth] Wolstenholme Elmy put it, 'free from all uninvited touch of man'.