"Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make……" — 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 to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create."
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18 Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys
Sheila Jeffreys has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social…
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana,…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
— Susan Jacoby
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's…
— Unknown Author
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,…
— Frederick Douglass
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost…
— John Sergeant Wise
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