Feminism Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys

11 Feminism quotes by Sheila Jeffreys

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Sheila Jeffreys offers eleven succinct statements that confront gender power structures head‑on. Her bold voice makes this a quick, thought‑provoking read for anyone interested in feminist theory.

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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of…

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

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

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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

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

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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women…

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“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia. All of the so-called religions legitimating…

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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such…

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

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“For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus…

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“Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'. This phrase has two interrelated meanings.…

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“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989). They learn…

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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…

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Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of…

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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members…

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“The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact that they…

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“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But in both…

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“Men's sexual freedom has depended, and still does to a large extent, upon their ownership of women's bodies. Men have bought, sold and traded…

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

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

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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations.…

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

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

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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

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“The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in…

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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and…

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