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INDEX
abortion, 97, 166, 167, 182, 184, 189–91, 192, 193, 194, 196, 205, 246, 252; back-street, 168; rights, 234
Abortion Law Reform Act (1967), 168, 189, 191
Abortion Law Reform Association, 167, 181
Abrams, Mark, 161
abstinence, for girls, 226
Adam, Noëlle, 137
Adler, Bill, Love Letters to the Beatles, 158
adolescence, of girls, 65, 66
adulthood: definition of, 6–7; age of transition to, 169, 171, 223, 246
age of consent, 18, 106
agency of women, 253
Aitkenhead, Decca, 230
alcohol, drinking of, 76, 228 see also binge drinking
Allen, Grant, The Woman Who Did, 51
Allen, Mary, 92
Allen, Ricky see Hulten, Karl
Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim, 135
Amos, Sarah, 43
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 23, 56
Anderson, Jim, 182
Anglican White Cross Society, 28
Anka, Paul, 157
anorexia nervosa, 215, 217–21, 231
anxieties about bodily appearance, 216, 250
appetite, distortions of, 221
approved schools, 105–6, 113–14, 116, 121
Arnot, Madeleine, with Miriam David and Gaby Weiner, Closing the Gender Gap, 235–6
Ashton, Winifred, Regiment of Women, 81
Ashworth, Andrea, 207
Asian women in Britain, 201–2
Astor, Lord, 147, 149
autonomy, 187, 196
aviators, women as, 86–9
Backfisch,
use of term, 71
Baden-Powell, Agnes, 73, 77–8
Baden-Powell, Olave, née St Clair Soames, 73
Baden-Powell, Robert, 72–3
Bailey, Reg, Letting Children be Children, 226
Baker, Carroll, 126
Bakewell, Joan, 226–7
Ball, Zoe, 229
Barber, Lynn, 130–1
Barker, Lilian, 116
Barlow, James, Term of Trial, 164
Barnard, A. B., The Girl’s Book about Herself, 68
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 53–4
battered wives, shelters for, 208
Baxter, Miss, 200
Beale, Dorothea, 47
Beale, Lionel, 57
Beat Girl, 245
beat girls, 137–74
Beatlemania, 157–60, 246
Beatles: MBE awards, 157–8; Please Please Me, 157
Beatnik Beauty, 154
beauty, idealised standards of, 212
beauty pornography, 232, 250
Beauvoir, Simone de: Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome, 127; Le Deuxième Sexe, 197
‘Because I am a Girl’ campaign, 253
Bedford College, 46–7
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
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