The Lesbian Heresy, 9781875559176
Paperback
This work challenges the male supremacist and racist assumptions of the sex industry. It advocates the continued creation of a separate lesbian culture, community, friendship and ethics based on principles of equality and resistance. Other work by the author includes “The Spinster and her Enemies”.

The Lesbian Heresy

a feminist perspective on the lesbian sexual revolution

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 1993

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Summary

The backlash against feminism has been documented powerfully by Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi: within the lesbian community too, there has been a parallel backlash. A lesbian sex industry is now making a profit from women’s oppression, teaching lesbians to turn the pain of abuse and subordination into ‘pleasure’ and calling it liberation. Feminist theorist Sheila Jeffreys challenges the patriarchal and racist assumptions of the sex industry. In The Lesbian Heresy she advocates the continued cre…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781875559176
ISBN-10:1875559175
Author:Sheila Jeffreys
Publisher:Spinifex Press
Imprint:Spinifex Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 July 1993
Weight:470g
Dimensions:250mm x 175mm x 15mm
About The Author

Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist writer and activist who has worked mainly against male violence and for lesbian feminism. She joined her first Womens Liberation Movement group in the UK in 1973. In 1991, she moved to Australia to teach at the University of Melbourne where she is now a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She moved back to the UK in 2015. She is the author of twelve books on issues such as the history of sexuality, lesbian feminism, prostitution, gay mens politics, beauty practices, the threat of patriarchal religion to womens rights, and the politics of transgenderism. Her most recent book is Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life (2020).

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