Anticlimax (book)

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the [...] Revolution is a 1990 book AbOUT the [...] revolution by Sheila Jeffreys.

Summary

Jeffreys argues that the hidden agenda of the [...] revolution of the 1960s was to teach women to eroticize and enjoy their own subordination within heterosexual [...]. 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 [...] in the lesbian community. Her ultimate conclusion is that women's liberation will never be achieved without destroying the link between [...] and power that underpins heteropatriarchy.

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-[...] trend within feminism.

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

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