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PROF SHEILA JEFFREYS



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/jeffreys.html
Work: 61 3 8344 7162
Fax: 61 3 8344 7906
Room: 413
Level: 04
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Female-to-male transsexualism; Gay pornography; Feminist critiques of queer theory; Queer political agenda; International sex industry. Western beauty practices as makeup, high heel shoes, cosmetic surgery, as well as pornochic; Misogyny in fashion and transfemininity. Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts Victoria University of Manchester
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

  • The industrial vagina:  The political economy of the global sex trade


    Year: 2009
    Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer(Abingdon)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Body Modification as Self Mutilation by Proxy


    Year: 2008
    Book: Sex, violence and the body. The Erotics of Wounding
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Disability and the male sex right


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2008
    Page numbers: 327-335
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  • Keeping Women Down and Out: The Strip Club Boom and the Reinforcement of Male Dominance


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Signs: journal of women in culture and society
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 151-173
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  • They Know It When They See It:  The UK Gender Recognition Act 2004


    Year: 2008
    Journal: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 328-345
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • They know it when they see it: The UK Gender  Recognition Act 2004


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Political Studies
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 328-345
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  • Double jeopardy: Women, the US military and the war in Iraq
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 16-25
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Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Pornography


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Prostitution


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • The Traffic in Women: Human Rights Violation or Migration for Work?
    Year: 2006
    Book: Migrant Women and Work
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Journal Articles

  • Judicial child abuse: The family court of Australia, gender identity disorder, and the ‘Alex’ case
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 1-12
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  • Making Abuse Visible: Combating the Normalization of Prostitution
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Moderna Sprak
    Volume: C
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 64-81
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Parctices in the West
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Sex Work (Part One): Sexuality studies at the University of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Traffic
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 104-131
    Publisher: University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association(Parkville)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Prostitution as a harmful cultural practice
    Year: 2004
    Book: Not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography
    Publisher: Spinifex(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Unpacking queer politics: a lesbian feminist perspective
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Polity Press(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Western concepts of gender and prostitution as obstacles to ending the international traffic in women
    Year: 2003
    Book: Future imaginigs: sexualities and genders in the new millennium
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Nedlands)
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Journal Articles

  • Sex tourism: do women do it too?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Leisure Studies
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 223-236
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The UN approach to harmful traditional practices
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 72-94
    Publisher: Routledge
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