Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

by Merck, Mandy; Sandford, Stella

• ISBN13: 9780230100299
• ISBN10: 0230100295
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.

Author Biography

Mandy Merck is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.  Stella Sandford is Principal Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: Shulamith Firestone and Sexual Difference	p. 9
Technology
Revisiting Reprotech: Firestone and the Question of Technology	p. 29
From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism	p. 61
Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia	p. 85
Sex, Love, and the Family
Questioning the Foundations of Heterosexual Families: Firestone on Childhood, Love, and Romance	p. 113
Toward a Cybernetic Communism: The Technology of the Anti-Family	p. 143
Integration, Intersex, and Firestone's Dialectic	p. 163
Dialectics
Technology, Nature, and Liberation: Shulamith Firestone's Dialectical Theory of Agency	p. 197
Sexing the State of Nature: Firestone's Materialist Manifesto	p. 215
The Dialectic of The Dialectic of Sex	p. 235
Epilogue: Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations	p. 255
Index	p. 277
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