Quotes by : Sheila Jeffreys

The "fashion-beauty complex'," representing the corporate interests involved in the fashion and beauty....

Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'.....

The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male....

Transgenderism depends for its very existence on the idea that there is an ‘essence’ of gender, a....

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

Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment....

It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be....

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that....

...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology.For....

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