The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

OTHER BOOKS BY SHEILA JEFFREYS
The Idea of Prostitution
• Prostitution is a legitimate and acceptable form of
employment, freely chosen by women.
• Men’s use of prostitution is a form of sexual violence,
degrading the women and causing grave psychological
damage.
In The Idea of Prostitution, Sheila Jeffreys explores these two
sharply contrasting views. She examines the changing concept
of prostitution from the White Slave Traffic of the nineteenth
century to its present status as legal.
The author includes varieties of prostitution such as: the
experience of male prostitutes; the uses of women in
pornography; military brothels, and compares them with slavery
and rape in marriage. She explodes the distinction between
“forced” and “free” prostitution, and documents the expanding
international traffic in women.
The book exposes the claims of the prostitutes’ rights
movement and the sex industry, while supporting prostituted
women, The argument is threefold: the sex of prostitution is not
just sex; the work of prostitution is not ordinary work; and
prostitution is a “choice” for the men who abuse, rather than
for the prostituted women.
ISBN: 1-875559-65-5
The Lesbian Heresy
Sheila Jeffreys offers a critique of the lesbian sex industry’s
efforts to profit from women’s oppression and challenges the
male supremacist and racist assumptions of a sex industry which
promotes sadomasochism and pornography as authentic lesbian
sexuality.
ISBN 1-875559-17-5