The Dialectic of Sex
The Case for Feminist Revolution
Published on 1. April 2015
240 pages
978-1-78478-053-1 (ISBN)
Description
An international best-seller, first published in 1970 when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex broke new ground in presenting a theory of politics for the women's liberation movement. Firestone posits that feminism is the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting the political with the personal. The book remains of pressing relevance today - a testament to Firestone's startlingly prescience.
'A landmark manifesto' Susan Faludi, New Yorker
'A precocious manifesto of total feminist revolution' Audrey Wollen, Harper's Magazine
'A landmark manifesto' Susan Faludi, New Yorker
'A precocious manifesto of total feminist revolution' Audrey Wollen, Harper's Magazine
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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1,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-053-1 (9781784780531)
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Person
Shulamith Firestone was born in Ottowa, Canada, in 1945. She grew up in the midwest United States and attended Yavneh of Telshe Yeshiva, Washington University, and the Art Institute of Chicago, from which she received a bachelor of fine arts in painting. She was founder of the women's liberation movement and editor of Notes, a journal of radical feminism. Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex was published when she was just twenty-five years old and became a bestseller, as well as the first book of the women's liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. She died in 2012.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Key to Abbreviations
- 1. The Dialectic of Sex
- 2. On American Feminism
- 3. Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism
- 4. Down with Childhood
- 5. Racism: The Sexism of the Family of Man
- 6. Love
- 7. The Culture of Romance
- 8. (Male) Culture
- 9. Dialectics of Cultural History
- 10. The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations
