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Julia Long launches Uprooting Male Domination by Sheila Jeffreys

Discover Uprooting Male Domination: Dispatches From the Sex Wars by Sheila Jeffreys, launched online with an introduction by Julia Long. In her speech, Julia celebrates Jeffreys’ fearless analysis of male domination, from everyday inequalities to the sex and reproductive technology industries, gender identity politics, and lesbian feminist resistance.

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Transgender Body Politics Launch speech by Bronwyn Winter

But the rapidity with which the transgender lobby has risen to a position of political influence and the number and enormity of consequences for women have forced me, albeit kicking and screaming, into taking up this discussion. Heather also perhaps: she tells in her book’s prologue of having “stumbled” into researching and writing on it by accident.

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Born Still Launch speech by Petra Bueskens

Born Still is a very special kind of memoir. It is, as Janet informs us in the opening pages, a political memoir – in which “the personal” – specifically, Janet’s life -- has been rendered so political, by virtue of its disruptive place in institutional systems of power and governance, as to have implications for the law and social practice -- in particular, in relation to home birth and independent midwifery.

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