Occupation: Political Scientist Birth: May 13, 1948
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not..
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of s….
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculin….
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage….
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens..
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. I….
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders an….
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, ….
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. ….
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradatio….
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender ….
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning..
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, ….
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that ….
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction….
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism..
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire..
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice..