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“Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.”

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Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys is a renowned political scientist born on May 13, 1948. Her research focuses on gender politics and feminist theory, offering profound insights into issues of gender inequality and women's rights. more

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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 glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.”

Men Has Beens Different Form Energy Differences Depends Males Affection Recognition Behaviour Masculinity Dominance Glue Bonding Drained Comradeship Male Dominance

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.”

Ifs Would Be Males Educate Surprising Pornography

Book:Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution

“Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.”

“Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.”

Men Teach Practice Objects Abuse Feminist Propaganda Analysis Pornography Degradation

Author: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.”

Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

“Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.”

Opposites Absence Masculinity Femininity Binary

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.”

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

Reality Term Space Violence Citizens Equal Threat Males Entering

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.”

Men Sex Term Position Members Deserve Female Feminist Dues Honour Survived Transgender Castes Subordination Pronouns

Book:Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

“Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry based upon such images viable, would require the reconstruction of women's sexuality into a ruling-class sexuality. In an egalitarian society objectification would not exist and therefore the particular buzz provided by pornography, the excitement of eroticised dominance for the ruling class, would be unimaginable.”