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 Fox. She had been found ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Writer Shulamith Firestone, who published her influential "The Dialectic of Sex" at age 25 and then retreated into isolation and mental illness, has died at age 67. Firestone was ...
In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable. In 1967, a group of graduate-student documentarians followed Shulamith Firestone, ...
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In 1967, a promising young painter told a group of documentary filmmakers that she could not bear the ugliness of the world. She intended, she explained, “to do something. Instead of beauty and power ...
When Shulamith Firestone wrote in 1970, “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society,” she couldn’t have predicted she was referring to ...
Airless Spaces, by Shulamith Firestone. Semiotext(e). 232 pages. $17.95. Legends, fairy tales, and myths are rife with the constraints of prophecy: the necessity of surrender before the all-powerful ...