Uprooting Male Domination: Dispatches from the Sex Wars

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Sheila Jeffreys

A brilliant overview of the oppression all women face – the system of male domination – and how feminists have fought back against it. Sheila Jeffreys provides a sometimes startling, always incisive, picture of the struggles she and other radical feminists have faced to protect the rights of women and girls over decades of activism. As well as outlining the many recognisable forms of oppression faced by women today – including pornography, violence, reproductive slavery and domestic servitude – Jeffreys highlights others that are sometimes ignored, such as the subordination of women through the cultural imposition of femininity and sexual harassment.

She dares to challenge the modern orthodoxy that ‘equality’ should be a goal of feminism. She points out how men’s power and status is acquired from the subordination of women, and nothing less than a radical transformation of society is required for women to achieve liberation. Sheila Jeffreys takes on the men’s sexual rights movement. She considers the new cult of gender ideology: the insult of transgenderism with its promotion of ‘womanface’ – the fetish of imitating and insulting women as comparable to blackface. She calls out the threat posed by men pretending to be women which risks reversing the hard-won gains made by feminists in the last 50 years.

Jeffreys develops a lesbian feminist critique of queer politics and celebrates the glories of lesbian community, friendship, art, literature, culture and ethics.

This four-pronged book – on feminist theory, on industries that exploit women like surrogacy and prostitution, on men’s sexual rights movement, and on lesbian feminism – provides an essential handbook for every woman who dares to dream of a better future for women and girls. Read it in book clubs and consciousness-raising groups and discuss.

5 AUGUST 2025 |  ISBN 9781922964243 | Paperback | 152 mm x 229 | 272 pages

Sheila Jeffreys

A brilliant overview of the oppression all women face – the system of male domination – and how feminists have fought back against it. Sheila Jeffreys provides a sometimes startling, always incisive, picture of the struggles she and other radical feminists have faced to protect the rights of women and girls over decades of activism. As well as outlining the many recognisable forms of oppression faced by women today – including pornography, violence, reproductive slavery and domestic servitude – Jeffreys highlights others that are sometimes ignored, such as the subordination of women through the cultural imposition of femininity and sexual harassment.

She dares to challenge the modern orthodoxy that ‘equality’ should be a goal of feminism. She points out how men’s power and status is acquired from the subordination of women, and nothing less than a radical transformation of society is required for women to achieve liberation. Sheila Jeffreys takes on the men’s sexual rights movement. She considers the new cult of gender ideology: the insult of transgenderism with its promotion of ‘womanface’ – the fetish of imitating and insulting women as comparable to blackface. She calls out the threat posed by men pretending to be women which risks reversing the hard-won gains made by feminists in the last 50 years.

Jeffreys develops a lesbian feminist critique of queer politics and celebrates the glories of lesbian community, friendship, art, literature, culture and ethics.

This four-pronged book – on feminist theory, on industries that exploit women like surrogacy and prostitution, on men’s sexual rights movement, and on lesbian feminism – provides an essential handbook for every woman who dares to dream of a better future for women and girls. Read it in book clubs and consciousness-raising groups and discuss.

5 AUGUST 2025 |  ISBN 9781922964243 | Paperback | 152 mm x 229 | 272 pages

Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women’s Subordination
Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women’s Subordination
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Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life
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Endorsements

If women were a nation, Sheila Jeffreys would be our Joan of Arc. For over five decades, she has fearlessly mapped the terrain of male domination and shown us the possible paths out to our liberation. Uprooting Male Domination is everything I long for from feminism: meticulous, incisive, bold, impassioned, and, finally, determined to gain ground from men in their daily, global war against us. If we do achieve something like freedom, Sheila Jeffreys will be one of the reasons why.
— Lierre Keith, author of the Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

 

A marvellous taste of Sheila Jeffreys’ wide-ranging knowledge. These timely speeches address key feminist issues with a depth that only expert and seasoned feminists like Jeffreys can convey with such ease. Uprooting Male Domination is an invaluable theoretical tool both for research and advocacy that will raise consciousness among new and longtime feminists alike.
—Ananda C, editor of Labrys Editorial, Spain

 

Reading Sheila Jeffreys is always a delight. This collection is a handy introduction to four fundamental topics she has been analysing for several decades. Jeffreys is undoubtedly one of our most lucid, influential and consistent theorists. New generations of lesbians and radical feminists have the opportunity of familiarising themselves with her thinking first hand and finding the wisdom and encouragement to keep fighting clearheadedly for women’s liberation.
—Laura Lecuona, author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers