Шейла Джеффрис

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable l...

The sexual revolution of the 1960's and 1970's is generally considered a time when the women's movement made great strides. In this provocative book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that this much heralded sexual freedom did not constitute any real gain for women but continued the tradition of their oppression. At the root of sexual liberation, Jeffreys finds an increasing eroticization of p...

In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy. Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male-headship’, impur...

A "must-read" book for anyone interested in new developments in lesbian theory. Acclaimed feminist theorist Jeffreys challenges male supremacist/racist assumptions of the sex industry, advocating the creation of a separate lesbian culture.

Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics. The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated ′manhood′ as a goal for gay men. Practices which ...

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of the...

Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined, and asserts that the decline of this feminism was due largely to the promotion of a sexual ideo...

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty re...

Это не просто история о кошке, это история о жизни и о согревающей сердце надежде. Маленький черно-белый кот по имени Соломон должен стать защитником своей бывшей хозяйки. Нет больше задорной, счастливой и свободной маленькой девочки Элен, на ее месте - неудачно вышедшая замуж женщина, которая отчаянно нуждается в любви и поддержке. И пока Элен и ее маленький сын пытаются справиться с потерей всег...

Идеальные книги для любителей котиков всех возрастов. Детская сказка "Невероятное путешествие Хвостика и его друзей" расскажет о приключениях, дружбе, взаимовыручке и о том, как устроена наша Вселенная. "История кота Соломона и Элен, которой было не просто" - взрослая история о жизни и о согревающей сердце надежде. Захватывающий рассказ про необычного кота, который стал самым верным другом свое...