“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.” — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989). They learn… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“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… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But in both… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“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… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
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… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
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… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations.… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
