Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

Jeffreys argues that when queer politics developed in the 1990s the interests of lesbians were submerged beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics.

Suggests that practices which construct this agenda, such as sadomasochism, cutting and piercing or female-to-male transsexual surgery need to be understood as forms of self-harm which result from the oppression of lesbians and gay men.

Concludes that only the egalitarian principles of lesbian feminism can form the basis of a necessary social transformation.