The Dialectic of Sex The Case for Feminist Revolution

by Firestone, Shulamith

• ISBN13: 9780374527877
• ISBN10: 0374527873
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-05
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark." Naomi Wolf Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproductionfor as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal. In the wake of recent headlines bemoaning women's squandered fertility and the ongoing debate over the appropriate role of genetics in the future of humanity, The Dialectic of Sex is revealed as remarkably relevant to today's societya testament to Shulamith Firestone's startlingly prescient vision.

Author Biography

Shulamith Firestone was a founder of the women’s liberation movement and editor of Notes, a journal of radical feminism. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

The Dialectic of Sex	3	(15)
On American Feminism	15	(23)
Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism	38	(27)
Down with Childhood	65	(30)
Racism: The Sexism of the Family of Man	95	(18)
Love	113	(18)
The Culture of Romance	131	(9)
(Male) Culture	140	(13)
Dialectics of Cultural History	153	(22)
The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations	175

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