The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Paperback
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Paperback
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by Shulamith Firestone (Author)
"The Dialectic of Sex is a truly visionary work." --Lisa Miya-Jervis, editor and publisher Bitch Magazine
Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction--for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal. In the wake of recent headlines bemoaning women's squandered fertility and the ongoing debate over the appropriate role of genetics in the future of humanity, The Dialectic of Sex is revealed as remarkably relevant to today's society--a testament to Shulamith Firestone's startlingly prescient vision. Firestone died in 2012, but her ideas live on through this extraordinary book.Author Biography
Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012) was a founder of the women's liberation movement and editor of Notes, a journal of radical feminism. A key figure of second-wave feminism, Firestone is best known for her groundbreaking work The Dialectic of Sex.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.22 x 5.58 IN
Publication Date: March 05, 2003
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