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 subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradatio… - Sheila Jeffreys
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
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 …
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
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage…
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not. - Sheila Jeffreys
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
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
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. - Sheila Jeffreys
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice. - Sheila Jeffreys
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
[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
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, …
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
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. …
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