The dialectic of sex: The case for feminist revolution

"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark." ―Naomi WolfOriginally 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 reproduction―for 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 society―a testament to Shulamith Firestone's startlingly prescient vision. Firestone died in 2012, but her ideas live on through this extraordinary book.

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Firestone, Shulamith

Social Sciences

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

"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 reproduction―for 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 society―a testament to Shulamith Firestone's startlingly prescient vision. Firestone died in 2012, but her ideas live on through this extraordinary book.

History

Americas

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

"Firestone cuts into the prejudice against women (and children)-amplified through the modern media=that pervades our society."

Dialectic of Sex : The Case for Feminist Revolution

Bantam]

âNo one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark.â âNaomi WolfOriginally 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 womenâs 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 reproductionâfor 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 womenâs 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 todayâs societyâa testament to Shulamith Firestoneâs startlingly prescient vision.

Women's Studies

Morrow Quill Paperbacks

Beginning with the premise that there is a fundamental biological inequality in the sexes, the author presents her classic blueprint for social revolution. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Quill

Dialectic of Sex, The: Case for Feminist Revolution

The Women"s Press

Lenfance est une invention récente. Les caractéristiques quon lui attribue (innocence, vulnérabilité, dépendance, etc.) sont le produit dune construction sociale. Les attentions spéciales, la protection, le respect dont les enfants sont lobjet, ainsi que les institutions créées pour eux (lécole en particulier) servent avant tout à les tenir sous tutelle, à les priver de tout pouvoir sur leur vie, à les enfermer dans leur rôle, à les... infantiliser. En réexhumant ce texte qui, pour la première fois sans doute, étendait aux enfants lanalyse des mécanismes de domination, nous espérons bien contribuer à donner des outils de lutte à tous ceux, toutes celles -et particulièrement aux mineur-es- qui jugent que la condition de lenfance est inacceptable.

Pour l'abolition de l'enfance

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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Dialectic of Sex : The Case for Feminist Revolution

The dialectic of sex: The case for feminist revolution

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Dialectic of Sex, The: Case for Feminist Revolution

Pour l'abolition de l'enfance