Question: The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 is a 1985 book about feminist involvement in the Social Purity movement by which lesbian feminist, an  English expatriate in Australia, is best known as a lesbian feminist scholar and political activist, for her analysis of the history and politics of human sexuality in the UK, and for her controversial views on transsexuals?

Context articles: Feminist sex wars
Barbara Smith
Inderpal Grewal
Sheila Jeffreys
Macho Sluts
Jean O'Leary
The Spinster and Her Enemies
Tamsin Wilton
Evelyn Torton Beck
Social purity movement

The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, or simply the sex wars or porn wars, are terms used to refer to collective debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity.
 Differences of opinion on matters of sexuality deeply polarized the feminist movement, particularly leading feminist thinkers, in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continue to influence debate amongst feminists to this day.
 The sides were characterized by anti-porn feminist and sex-positive feminist groups with disagreements regarding sexuality, including pornography, erotica, prostitution, lesbian sexual practices, the role of trans women in the lesbian community, sadomasochism and other sexual issues.
 The feminist movement was deeply divided as a result of these debates.
Barbara Smith (born 1946) is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States.
 Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a critic, teacher, lecturer, author, scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought.
 She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last 25 years.
 Smith's essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including "The New York Times" Book Review, "The Black Scholar", "Ms.", "Gay Community News", "The Guardian", "The Village Voice", "Conditions" and "The Nation".
 Barbara has a twin sister, Beverly Smith, who is also a lesbian feminist activist and writer.
Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies.
 She is an influential feminist scholar whose research interests include transnational and postcolonial feminist theory; feminism and human rights; nongovernmental organizations and theories of civil society and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility and South Asian cultural studies.
 Together with Caren Kaplan, Grewal is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies or transnational feminism.
 She has served on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of core journals in the field of feminist cultural studies, Women's Studies Quarterly; Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies and Meridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism.
 She is also one of three series editors for the "New Wave in Women's Studies" book series published by Duke University Press.
, and blogs about gender issues for the Huffington Post.
Sheila Jeffreys (born 13 May 1948), an English expatriate in Australia, is best known as a lesbian feminist scholar and political activist, for her analysis of the history and politics of human sexuality in the UK, and for her controversial views on transsexuals.
 She was a professor in political science at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
 Jeffreys's argument that the "sexual revolution" on men's terms contributed less to women's freedom than to their continued oppression has both commanded respect and attracted intense criticism.
 Jeffreys argues that transsexuals reproduce oppressive gender roles and mutilate their bodies through sex reassignment surgery, that lesbian culture has been negatively affected by emulating the sexist influence of the gay male subculture of dominant/submissive sexuality, and that women suffering pain in pursuit of beauty is a form of submission to patriarchal sadism.
Macho Sluts (ISBN  ) is a 1988 book of erotic short stories by Pat Califia, published by Alyson Publications.
Then lesbian identified, Califia had written the stories between 1977 and 1988 during a period of fierce struggle between lesbian feminist SM practitioners and anti-pornography feminists in the San Francisco Bay area.
 Media scholar Carolyn Bronstein has characterized these articles, and the anthology, as lesbian romance fiction.
 As such, they made lesbians visible within the leather and SM communities, and lesbians practicing what came to be known as "power exchange" visible in the feminist community.
 Bronstein characterizes the collection as an activist response to anti-pornography feminists' characterization of "SM as as a dangerous form of sexuality that reproduced the positions of power associated with heterosexuality."
Jean O'Leary (March 4, 1948 – June 4, 2005) was an American lesbian and gay rights activist.
 She was the founder of Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement, and an early member and co-director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
 She co-founded National Coming Out Day.
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 is a 1985 book about feminist involvement in the Social Purity movement by lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys.
 The book received positive reviews.
Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952 – 30 April 2006) was an English academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England.
 Wilton was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Sexualities" and helped establish the UK LGBT Health Summit.
 In 2007 the LGBT Health Summit created the "Tamsin Wilton Award" for LGBT Health in honour of her research and written contributions in the field.
 Wilton focused on gay and lesbian health issues, authored ten published books in 14 years as well as chapters, papers, pamphlets, reports and articles in the LGBT press.
 She gave papers around the world, and as her reputation grew she became an international consultant to the AIDS Education Research Trust in Southern Africa.
 She was made the UK's first Professor of Human Sexuality while at the University of the West of England and died from an aneurysm on 30 April 2006 not long after moving back to her native Cornwall.
Evelyn Torton Beck is a scholar, teacher and activist who specialized in Women’s Studies, Jewish Women’s Studies and Lesbian Studies.
 She is a founding member of The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and its Jewish and lesbian caucuses and helped establish the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of the National Lesbian Feminist Organization (NLFO).
The social purity movement was a late 19th-century social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities that were considered immoral according to Christian morality.
 Composed primarily of women, the movement was active in English-speaking nations from the late 1860s to about 1910, exerting an important influence on the contemporaneous feminist, eugenics, and birth control movements.
 The movement helped to shape feminist views on prostitution.