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The Lesbian Heresy

A feminist perspective on the
lesbian sexual revolution

By Sheila Jeffreys

Like rain in the desert, remarked Elaine Miller of The Lesbian Heresy.

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 creation of lesbian culture, community, friendship and ethics based on principles of equality and resistance. And for this call to freedom, lesbian feminists are deemed heretics.

‘An important analysis of pornography, values and violence.’ —Ms Magazine

Sheila Jeffreys teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.

Sheila Jeffreys is also the author of the ground-breaking work, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution and two other books for Spinifex Press:

The Spinster and Her Enemies

The Idea of Prostitution

The Lesbian Heresy is also available in German and Spanish

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The Lesbian Heresy

A feminist perspective on the lesbian sexual revolution

A feminist perspective on the
lesbian sexual revolution