Sheila Jeffreys: 9 books
Beauty and Misogyny
Harmful cultural practices in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead...
Man's Dominion
The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.
Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism,...
The Industrial Vagina
The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.
The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry...
by Sheila Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined,...
by Sheila Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms.
Anticlimax
A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Sexuality has been reframed by postmoderism, but this clear discussion of literature, politics, and popular culture provides a useful historical view. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women, but did the sexual revolution have the same goals...
Gender Hurts
A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is...
The Sexuality Papers
Male Sexuality and the Social Control of Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true, demonstrating that the ‘sexual revolution’ came as a backlash to a women’s movement which challenged...
The Lesbian Revolution
Lesbian Feminism in the UK 1970-1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The Lesbian Revolution argues that lesbian feminists were a vital force in the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). They did not just play a fundamental role in the important changes wrought by second wave feminism, but created a powerful revolution in lesbian theory, culture and practice. Yet this...