Sheila Jeffreys

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Sheila Jeffreys (born May 13, 1948 in England ) is a British - Australian feminist and political scientist . She was Professor of Political Science at Melbourne University .

Life

Sheila Jeffreys grew up in Great Britain, where she has been a feminist since 1973. She holds a Master of Arts from Victoria University of Manchester and a Ph.D. at Monash University . She moved to Australia in 1991 and taught Political Science at Melbourne University until 2015. Among other things, she published nine books that deal with the sexual oppression of women. According to Jeffreys, a woman who orgasms through a man would collaborate with the "patriarchal oppressor system".

Fonts

  • The Sexuality Debates. Routledge & K. Paul, New York 1987, ISBN 0-7102-0936-3 .
  • Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution. Women's Press, London 1990, ISBN 0-7043-4203-0 .
  • The lesbian heresy a feminist perspective on the lesbian sexual revolution. Spinifex, North Melbourne (Victoria) 1993, ISBN 1-875559-17-5 .
  • The spinster and her enemies: feminism and sexuality, 1880-1930. Spinifex, North Melbourne (Victoria) 1997, ISBN 1-875559-63-9 .
  • Unpacking queer politics: a lesbian feminist perspective. Polity Press in association with Blackwell Pub, Cambridge Malden (Massachusetts) 2003, ISBN 0-7456-2838-9 .
  • Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West. Routledge, London / New York 2005, ISBN 0-415-35182-0 .
  • The idea of ​​prostitution. 2nd edition, Spinifex, North Melbourne (Victoria) 2008, ISBN 978-1-876756-67-3 .
  • The industrial vagina: the political economy of the global sex trade. Routledge, London / New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-41233-9 .
  • Man's dominion: religion and the eclipse of women's rights in world politics. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxfordshire) / New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-59674-9 .
  • Gender Hurts. A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism . Routledge , London 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-53939-5 , pp. 0 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Professor Sheila Jeffreys ssps.unimelb.edu.au, accessed October 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Henrietta Cook: Radical feminist Sheila Jeffreys retires after 24 years at the University of Melbourne. In: The Age , May 23, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015.
  3. Birgit Kelle : GenderGaga. How an absurd ideology wants to conquer our everyday life . adeo , Asslar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86334-045-2 , p. 159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).