Anticlimax (book)

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Author Sheila Jeffreys
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Sexual revolution
Published 1990
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN 978-1742198071

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution is a 1990 book about the sexual revolution by Sheila Jeffreys.[1]

Summary

Jeffreys argues that the hidden agenda of the sexual revolution of the 1960s was to teach women to eroticize and enjoy their own subordination within heterosexual sex. She contends that heterosexuality is the root of women's oppression and therefore incompatible with feminist struggle. She also critiques recent developments in the women's movement: the mutual influence between gay and lesbian culture which, she believes, has led to the proliferation of role-playing, sado-masochism and lesbian pornography in the lesbian community. Her ultimate conclusion is that women's liberation will never be achieved without destroying the link between sex and power that underpins heteropatriarchy.[1]

Scholarly reception

Anticlimax was reviewed favorably by Ann Jones in the January/February 1991 issue of Ms. Feminist Rene Denfeld found Jones's review to be an example of an anti-sexual trend within feminism.[2]

Julie Bindel wrote that in Anticlimax, Jeffreys "laid bare the myth of the 1960s sexual revolution".[3]

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

Books
  • Denfeld, Rene (1995). The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order. New York: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-789-8. 
  • Egerton, Jane (1993). Gilbert, Harriett, ed. The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola: A Feminist Companion. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-03535-5. 
Online articles
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