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Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: New York Radical Women ...
Aug 12, 2019 · Second-wave feminist Shulamith Firestone was mocked when she published a 1970 manifesto advocating artifical wombs, but her arguments about the exploitation of reproductive labour remain...
Oct 14, 2019 · Shulamith Firestone’s best-known work is the 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. In it, Firestone says that a culture of sex discrimination can be traced back to the biological structure of life itself.
Apr 8, 2013 · The WBAI radio host Fran Luck called for the Tenth Street studio to be named the Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment, and rented “in perpetuity” to “an older and meaningful feminist.”
Shulamith Firestone was one of the founders of radical feminism in the United States. At age 25, she published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, which brought together the dialectical materialism of Marx and the psychoanalytic insights of Freud in an effort to develop an analysis of women’s oppression that was inclusive ...
Debora Halbert SHULAMITH FIRESTONE Radical feminism and visions of the information society Shulamith Firestone was a foundational second-wave feminist thinker. Firestone’s radical feminism argued for a future where technology was used to eliminate sexism by freeing women from childbirth and liberating both men and women from the patriarchal ...
Aug 31, 2012 · Shulamith Firestone, a widely quoted feminist writer who published her arresting first book, “The Dialectic of Sex,” at 25, only to withdraw from public life soon afterward, was found dead on ...
Mar 1, 2004 · Shulamith Firestone, a foundational feminist thinker, envisioned a future where technology would eliminate sexism by freeing women from childbirth and dismantling the patriarchal nuclear...
Shulamith Firestone. Canadian-born feminist writer Shulamith Firestone (born 1945) was just 25 years old when her first book, The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution, ignited a minor firestorm of controversy and public debate in 1970. In it, Firestone argued that true gender equality was impossible to achieve until science freed ...
Aug 31, 2012 · Shulamith Firestone, the author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, has died at the age of 67, apparently of natural causes, The New York Times' Margolit...
