Greer looked at the mystery and shame surrounding knowledge of women’s bodies and the constrictions placed on their sexuality. Women, she argued, are conditioned under pressure from the “feminizers” to abandon their autonomy and embrace a stereotyped version of femininity. The result is helplessness, resentment, a lack of sexual pleasure, an absence of joy.
by Warren Perkin. Since the 1950s, the wealthy and powerful have sought to make acquaintance of Ms Patterning, with the ulterior motive of using her in fulfilling their goals. She finds herself overjoyed that her own mission in life, to end the domestic drudgery of her fellow females, has finally caught the attention of the […]
What happened to one of our most famous feminists? by Julie Bindel. The majority of the women who participated in the research disclosed that they could easily make themselves orgasm by masturbating, and that sex with male partners was far less satisfactory. Of course, telling men that they are rubbish in the sack was — […]
Book by Isobelle Barrett Meyering, reviewed by Virginia Haussegger. Indeed, it almost seems odd that a book published in 2022, which includes careful and sensitive discussion of children’s sexual liberation – an agenda which included calls to reduce the age of consent and encourage sexual exploration among minors – that there is no reference to […]
by Michelle Goldberg. Sex positivity — the idea that feminism should privilege sexual pleasure and fight sexual repression — has dominated feminism for most of my life. It was a reaction to puritanical trends in feminism that ignored the reality of women’s desires. Some second-wave feminists had treated heterosexual sex — as well as remotely […]
https://quillette.com/2019/05/15/last-days-at-hot-slit-a-review/ A review of Last Days at Hot Slit—The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder. (Semiotext(e), March 2019) In my 2016 book Porn Panic! Jerry Barnett Dworkin and Mackinnon created the language and the methodology of pro-censorship feminism. In their hands, feminism was subtly twisted from a declaration of female agency and power […]
“What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster. by Tomas Bogardus. This reunion of sex and gender arguably began in Judith Butler’s 1990 book Gender Trouble, when she asked: “Are the ostensibly natural facts of sex discursively produced […]
The headlong rush to judgment by so many well-educated, middle-class women in the #MeToo movement has been startling and dismaying. Their elevation of emotion and group solidarity over fact and logic has resurrected damaging stereotypes of women’s irrationality that were once used to deny us the vote.
by Mona Charen. Much of the feminist project of the past half century, with its denial of sex differences and its insistence on stamping out sex roles, was misbegotten. Humans are not “assigned” sexes; we are male and female. Our differences are complementary, not superior or inferior. Decades of war between the sexes have led […]
Why an Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future. By Cynthia Eller. Steinem had been speculating about the origins of the patriarchy as early as 1972 … The discovery of paternity, of sexual cause and childbirth effect, was as cataclysmic for society as, say, the discovery of fire or the shattering of the atom. Gradually, […]
by John Heidenry. Endowed with ferocious legal cunning, she [MacKinnon] was to play Robespierre to Dworkin’s pamphleteering, emotional Marat in the radical feminist Reign of Terror against men that was to wash over the country in the coming decade.
by Gloria Steinem. If men had grown up seeing God portrayed only as Mother and She, would they feel an equal godliness within themselves?
by Sheila Jeffreys. The last chapter considers how we can move beyond heterosexuality as a political institution and the form of desire, heterosexual desire, which derives from it. No liberation is possible for women in a world in which inequality, and specifically the inequality of women, is sexy.
by Gerda Lerner. Surrender for money was at first a religious act; it took place in the temple of the goddess of love, and the money originally went into the temple treasury
by Betty Frieden. It was a man, the great anthropologist Gregory Bateson, who first drew my attention to anthropological data from the studies of many cultures which indicate that the more isolated and polarized the role of men and women – as, for instance, in those societies where women are shrouded in veil or chador, […]
by Andrea Dworkin But Greer has another side which allies itself with the worst of male chauvinism… In an interview in the Amerikan Screw, reprinted in Suck under the tide “Germaine: ‘I am a Whore, ’ ” she stated: Ideally, you’ve got to the stage where you really could ball everyone — the fat, the […]
by Erica Jong. The zipless fuck was more than a fuck. It was a platonic ideal. Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like rose petals, underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff. Tongues intertwined and turned liquid. Your whole soul flowed out through your tongue and into the mouth of […]
by Shulamith Firestone. “Thus, without the incest taboo, adults might return within a few generations to a more natural “polymorphously perverse” sexuality, the concentration on genital sex and orgasmic pleasure giving way to total physical/ emotional relationships that included that. Relations with children would include as much genital sex as the child was capable of […]
by Germaine Greer. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student’s desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role. In fact the chief instrument in the deflection and perversion of female energy is the denial of female sexuality for the substitution of […]
by Kate Millett. Then in 1970, feminist Kate Millett published her book, Sexual Politics, that popularized the Marxist-inspired concept, “patriarchy.” Millett described patriarchy as a “most ingenious system of social control” that subordinates women through socialization, economic dependency, and normalized violence, she claimed.