The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution

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Sheila Jeffreys

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.

1993 | ISBN 9781875559176 | Paperback | 250 x 175 mm | 208 pp

Sheila Jeffreys

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.

1993 | ISBN 9781875559176 | Paperback | 250 x 175 mm | 208 pp

Reviews

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

–Ms Magazine

Table of Contents

Dedication to Sandy Horn

Introduction ix

1 The Creation of Sexual Difference 

2 The Lesbian Sexual Revolution 

3 Lesbian Sex Therapy 

4 The Essential Lesbian 

5 Return to Gender: Postmodernism and Lesbian and Gay Theory 

6 The Lesbian Outlaw 

7 A Pale Version of the Male: Lesbians and Gay Male Culture 

8 A Deeper Separation 

Appendix: Sadomasochism: The Erotic Cult of Fascism 

References 

Index