"Men have been adjudicating on what women are,……" — Sheila Jeffreys
"Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings."
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18 Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys
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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual…
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a…
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The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the…
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Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies…
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Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices…
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no…
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be…
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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male…
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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due…
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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…
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