Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradatio…

- Sheila Jeffreys

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 …

- Sheila Jeffreys

Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage…

- Sheila Jeffreys

Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender …

- Sheila Jeffreys

Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.

- Sheila Jeffreys

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

- Sheila Jeffreys

Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.

- Sheila Jeffreys

Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. …

- Sheila Jeffreys

[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, …

- Sheila Jeffreys