Quotes by : Sheila Jeffreys

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity....

For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal....

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....

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

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but....

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

This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented....

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