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Sheila Jeffreys (born 1948) is a well-known and controversial radical lesbian feminist. She is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Before moving to Australia in the early 1990s, she lived most of her life in the UK. The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, after the University of Sydney. ...

Some of her positions include:

• the transsexual/transgender rights movement is a reactionary movement serving patriarchy and homophobia
• lesbian culture has been corrupted by the negative influence of gay men
• women's clothing, hairstyles and fashions are a form of submission to patriarchial sadism
• cosmetic surgery, body piercing, transsexualism and self-harm are all forms of patriarchial sexual violence against the body

References

• Her official Melbourne University home page
• Interview with The Guardian
• Criticial review of her book The Lesbian Heresy
• "Body modification as self-mutilation by proxy" - Article by her
• "Allowing Alex's sex change shows up a gender-biased Family Court" - Article by her
• Critical review of her book Anticlimax
• Transcript of her talk at Andrea Dworkin commemorative conference in Oxford, April 2006

Books

• Jeffreys, Sheila. The lesbian heresy : a feminist perspective on the lesbian sexual revolution.. North Melbourne : Spinifex, 1993. ISBN 1875559175
• Jeffreys, Sheila. Anticlimax : a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution. Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1991. ISBN 0814741797 (cloth). ISBN 0814741800 (pbk.)
• Jeffreys, Sheila Beauty and misogyny : harmful cultural practices in the West London : Routledge, c2005. ISBN 0415351839 (hbk.). ISBN 0415351820 (pbk.)
• Jeffreys, Sheila. The idea of prostitution. North Melbourne : Spinifex, 1997. ISBN 1875559655(cloth), ISBN 1875559655 (pbk.)
• Jeffreys, Sheila. The spinster and her enemies : feminism and sexuality, 1880-1930. [New ed.] North Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 1997. ISBN 1875559639
• Jeffreys, Sheila. Unpacking queer politics : a lesbian feminist perspective. Cambridge : Polity ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 0745628370 (hbk.), ISBN 0745628389 (pbk.)