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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Shulamith Firestone

Does women's unequal position start with biology and the family, and can technology now change it, as this radical feminist argues?

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Author
Shulamith Firestone

Why read it

  • You will see why the author argues that sex divides people like a class system, one so deep it goes unseen
  • You will understand why this author treats love and romance as political questions, not private ones
  • You will be able to weigh the claim that technology could free women from what biology has imposed on them

Who it is for

  • A reader tracing where today's feminist debates came from
  • A student of political theory curious about Marx and Freud
  • Someone who wants to weigh a radical argument for themselves

Contents

  1. Key to Abbreviations
  2. Author’s Note
  3. 1 The Dialectic of Sex
  4. 2 On American Feminism
  5. 3 Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism
  6. 4 Down with Childhood
  7. 5 Racism: The Sexism of the Family of Man
  8. 6 Love
  9. 7 The Culture of Romance
  10. 8 (Male) Culture
  11. 9 Dialectics of Cultural History
  12. 10 The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations

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