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Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life Paperback – 1 Sept. 2020

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Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life is both an engaging autobiography and a fascinating account of feminist history. From the heady days of the Womens Liberation Movement through to the backlash against radical feminism as neoliberal laissez-faire attitudes took hold. Fast forward to the current re-examination of feminism in light of the #MeToo movement and an emerging new wave of radical feminism. Sheila Jeffreys bold account makes it clear that the feminism and lesbianism she has championed for decades is needed more than ever. With honesty and frankness, she tells of victories and setbacks in her unrelenting commitment to womens freedom from mens violence, especially the violence inherent in pornography and prostitution. We also learn what her steadfastness has cost her in terms of personal and professional rewards. Trigger Warning places radical feminism within a cultural, social and intellectual context while also taking us on a personal journey. Sheila Jeffreys has tirelessly crossed the globe to advance radical feminist theory and practice and we are invited to share in the intellectual and political crossroads she has encountered during her life. Accessible yet detailed and rigorous, this landmark volume is essential reading for everyone who has ever wondered what radical feminism really is.
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    1925950204
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    978-1925950205
  3. Publisher
    Spinifex Press
  4. Publication date
    1 Sept. 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    15.24 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm
  7. Print length
    240 pages
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Sheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist activist who has worked mainly against male violence and for lesbian feminism. She joined her first Women’s Liberation Movement group in the UK in 1973 and became a lesbian in 1977. In 1991, she moved to Australia to teach at the University of Melbourne, and retired back to the UK in 2015. She is the author of ten books on issues such as the history of sexuality, lesbian feminism, prostitution, gay men’s politics, beauty practices, the threat of patriarchal religion to women’s rights, and the politics of transgenderism. Her most recent book is The Lesbian Revolution: Lesbian Feminism in the UK 1970–1990 (2018).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spinifex Press (1 Sept. 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1925950204
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1925950205
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Feminism and a social history of British feminism
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2020
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A brilliant book - and a fascinating outline of the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards up to the present day. learned about 'revolutionary feminism' and the hope that radical change could come from 'eroticising equality' in a world where there is inequality and sexual violence as the template for sexual relationships. The book shows the feedback loop between the politics of heterosexuality (the eroticising power and enforcing a masochism on women) and the way that these power structures were mapped on to gay and lesbian cultures in the late 1970s. lesbian feminists went in two opposite directions. Revolutionary feminists wanted to erotocise equality, to reject heterosexual master-slave dynamics in culture and usher in a New World - and the BDSM feminists who went with gay male BDSM and sided with pornographers against women. Also the book outlines the culture of 'choosing lesbianity' as a personal and political way of showing love for women. In a world of woman hating, a culture of lesbianity based on the politics of love is beautifully expressed. Also, the attack on woman through transgender siliencing of feminist opinions that come from the same advocates who argued that porn was free speech are now viciously silencing women. Thank you so much for a refreshingly vibrant point of view. Sheila also explores the state of the academy from censorship to the rise of identity politics -which has forced an homogenous worldview. I wish there were more feminists like Sheila in the world and if she were taught at university rather than the BSDM feminists and 'gender' feminists we'd be living in a different world.
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Joan Appleton
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for women who carves out her life. A book for all women.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2020
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A must read for women who have selected to follow a life of their own, to love and be with other women who share this path. Reading is clear, without the use garnished and grandiose language. A courageous woman who cares passionately about all our lives.
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Patrick Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book but be warned.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2020
In the three previous books by Jeffreys I’ve read—Spinster and her Enemies (1985), Beauty and Misogyny (2005), and Gender Hurts (2014)—one of her many sensible ideas is that of equality and respect in sexual relations, whether they be homosexual or heterosexual. Opposed to this egalitarian and humane idea is the idea of the eroticism of dominance and subordination, degradation and disrespect as promulgated by pornography and prostitution and more recently in the sex stereotypical hierarchical roles promulgated by gender ideology and activism. “Trigger Warning” is an entertaining and informative personal account of the development of this and Jeffreys’s other sensible ideas and of the opposition to them from institutions such as the pornography industry.

It was once said that “women’s virtue is man’s wittiest invention.” However, an even wittier—or more diabolic—invention is the newly claimed fragility of men (and their handmaidens) to the slightest criticism of pornography and gender ideology because any criticism will trigger them to self-harm (or to hold their breath until they turn blue). Hence, as I understand it, the book title’s “Trigger Warning.”
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Queen of Denmark
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, I have enjoyed reading it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2020
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I really liked this book and will be buying more by the author, I felt she had a lot to say at a time when Lesbian Feminists are perhaps not being given the voice they should have.
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Karen
5.0 out of 5 stars Feminista lésbica revolucionária
Reviewed in Brazil on 27 May 2024
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Biografia de uma feminista lésbica revolucionária, todos seus livros são fantásticos e deveriam ser ensinados nas universidades. Uma pena que é tão atacada por pós modernos e trans ativistas, obviamente porque ela desafia os valores masculinistas presentes nos movimentos. Uma mulher incrível, forte, vanguarda e inteligente que só darão valor quando for tarde demais.
Obrigada por tudo que fez e faz pelas mulheres e lésbicas. Você é a nossa heroína.
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Patrick Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book but be warned.
Reviewed in the United States on 2 September 2020
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In the three previous books by Jeffreys I’ve read—Spinster and her Enemies (1985), Beauty and Misogyny (2005), and Gender Hurts (2014)—one of her many sensible ideas is that of equality and respect in sexual relations, whether they be homosexual or heterosexual. Opposed to this egalitarian and humane idea is the idea of the eroticism of dominance and subordination, degradation and disrespect as promulgated by pornography and prostitution and more recently in the sex stereotypical hierarchical roles promulgated by gender ideology and activism. “Trigger Warning” is an entertaining and informative personal account of the development of this and Jeffreys’s other sensible ideas and of the opposition to them from institutions such as the pornography industry.

It was once said that “women’s virtue is man’s wittiest invention.” However, an even wittier—or more diabolic—invention is the newly claimed fragility of men (and their handmaidens) to the slightest criticism of pornography and gender ideology because any criticism will trigger them to self-harm (or to hold their breath until they turn blue). Hence, as I understand it, the book title’s “Trigger Warning.”
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Julia
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful. A history of strength of conviction
Reviewed in Australia on 7 October 2020
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An amazing book by a remarkably strong woman who has been an outspoken feminist for 50 years making it easier for the rest of us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An inspirational must -read could not put it down
Reviewed in the United States on 19 October 2020
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A must read. The life story of a brilliant determined woman of integrity, who lives a life true to her feminist convictions despite vicious blow-back from those who seem to be threatened and strangely preoccupied by her strength.

I was touched by her sexual coming-of-age story and appalled by the reaction of her college boyfriend who dragged her to a psychiatric clinic for ‘fixing’ instead of supporting her in what was clearly an innate sexual preference that didn’t include him or his ilk....I’ve found this book and a few of her others, including The Industrial Vagina, to be fresh, hopeful, and bold. I greatly admire her work to oppose the trafficking of women and girls. I could not put this book down.
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