Shulamith Firestone (Author of The Dialectic of Sex)

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Shulamith Firestone

Born

in Ottawa, Canada

January 07, 1945

Died

August 28, 2012

Genre

Women & Gender Studies, Fiction

Influences

Simone de Beauvoir

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Shulamith Firestone (also called Shulie) was a Jewish, Canadian-born feminist. She was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism, having been a founding member of the New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. In 1970, she authored The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, an important and widely influential feminist text.

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	The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 2,689 ratings — published 1970 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Airless Spaces 4.13 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader by Robin Mackay (Editor), Armen Avanessian (Editor), J.G. Ballard (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	pour l'abolition de l'enfance by Shulamith Firestone, Sylvia Gleadow (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frauenbefreiung und sexuelle Revolution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes from the Second Year : Women's Liberation, Major Writings of the Radical Feminists by Anne Koedt (Editor), Shulamith Firestone (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

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“(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

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“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

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