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Sheila Jeffreys, associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, is author of Unpacking Queer Politics (Polity 2003). Her most recent book addresses these themes in detail: Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Routledge, 2005).
