Shulamith Firestone
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Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone was an American radical feminist writer and activist. She was a prominent figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a fou
Firestone c. 1970
The Dialectic of Sex
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution is a 1970 book by the radical feminist activist Shulamith Firestone. Written over a few months when Firestone was 25, it has been described as a
Shulamith Firestone
…sexual harassment at Madison Square Garden, organized abortion speakouts, and disrupted abortion legislation meetings. In 1970, Firestone published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Released in September of that year, the book became an influential text within feminist theory. The ideas presented in The Dialectic of Sex later…
Cover of the first edition, with a portrait of an anonymous woman by Edgar Degas