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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (Paperback)

by Shulamith Firestone (Author) "Sex class is so deep as to be invisible..." (more)
Key Phrases: sex privatization, sex class system, leftist analysis, Oedipus Complex, Black Power, Middle Ages (more...)

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"The Dialectic of Sex is a must-have for those interested in feminist theory, both past and present. It's reappearance now, during yet another period of 'ridicule' towards women's rights, is perhaps even more pertinent than its first publication."
-Kathleen Hanna, founding member of the Riot Grrrls movement

"The Dialectic of Sex is a truly visionary work. Thirty years later, many of Firestone's ideas remain startlingly relevant, making Dialectic essential reading not only for its value as feminist history but its contribution to feminism's future.
-Lisa Miya-Jervis, editor and publisher Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture

"Although Gen X women like to fancy ourselves the "freshmakers" of feminism, Shulamith Firestone reminds us that sisters have been "keeping it real" long before that expression was even invented. These power-packed chapters are live and direct, with a cultural shelf life that spans well into our times."
-Ophira Edut, editor Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Body Image and Identity, founder and publisher HUES magazine
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"The Dialectic of Sex is a must-have for those interested in feminist theory, both past and present. It's reappearance now, during yet another period of 'ridicule' towards women's rights, is perhaps even more pertinent than its first publication."
-Kathleen Hanna, founding member of the Riot Grrrls movement

"The Dialectic of Sex is a truly visionary work. Thirty years later, many of Firestone's ideas remain startlingly relevant, making Dialectic essential reading not only for its value as feminist history but its contribution to feminism's future.
-Lisa Miya-Jervis, editor and publisher Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture

"Although Gen X women like to fancy ourselves the "freshmakers" of feminism, Shulamith Firestone reminds us that sisters have been "keeping it real" long before that expression was even invented. These power-packed chapters are live and direct, with a cultural shelf life that spans well into our times."
-Ophira Edut, editor Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Body Image and Identity, founder and publisher HUES magazine

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 5, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374527873
ISBN-13: 978-0374527877
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #152,556 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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sex privatization, sex class system, leftist analysis, conservative feminists, artificial reproduction, patriarchal nuclear family, power psychology

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Oedipus Complex, Black Power, Middle Ages, Simone de Beauvoir, Woman's Party, Electra Complex, Big Brother, Industrial Revolution, Progressive Era, Wilhelm Reich, Civil War, Eldridge Cleaver, Theodor Reik

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5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful argument for radical feminist revolution., December 13, 1998

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Shulamith Firestone's 1970 text calling for a radical re-thinking of the basis of modern social structures remains a powerful analysis of the state of patriarchy and the feminist movements of the Twentieth Centry. Firestone's central claim is that only in abolishing the sexual differences rooted in biology and reproduction can women, and by extension all humans, free themselves of the sex caste system which privileges men over women and children. In her book, she takes on important thinkers such as Freud and Marx, exposing their oversights and/or oppositions to a true revolution of sex. She ultimately looks to technology (cybernation) as the means by which humans can finally take control of reproductive necessity and correct the accident of Nature that insists on sexual difference and differential power dynamics.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended., July 18, 2006

By	Jonathan M. Giardina "Prince fan" (Chocolate City AKA New Orleans Bee-yotch!) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really should've read this book again so I could write a compotent review but I'd rather read a new book instead. Anyway, you should buy this book if you grew up in the 1990's and think that nothing can shock you and that you've been there, done that, heard everything, etc. I listen to Notorious B.I.G. and Eminem and I can honestly say Firestone is the "illest". Bizarre from D12 jokes about stuff that Firestone takes seriously. This is not in any way a liberal book. Firestone wants to free children, translation: make them grow up faster then they already are. Firestone is not a democrat, not with a big "d" or a little "d". She advocates a Dictatorship of the Proletariat as a transtitional phase to Communistic Anarchy. Not only did she not get put in jail, her book is in my college library. The lady just doesn't give a f... I'd love to hear what a Republican would have to say about this if he or she could even believe what they were reading. Seriously folks, as an experiment, go to a Southern Baptist church where the preacher screams about the devil all the time. I betcha my paycheck that the "devil" and Firestone have a whole ishload in common. I digress. "Down with childhood." Classic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Text of the Women's Movement, July 25, 2002

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Shulamith Firestone's now classic work was an important influence on, and manifestation of, the 1970's women's movement. Firestone, an active participant in the Chicago and New York radical feminist scenes, captures the spirit of the movement, and the historical moement, in this work. Combining a material and feminist analysis of women's status in Western society, Firestone makes a case for revolution that may seem extreme to today's reader. However, this text is essential for understanding 1970's radical feminism and it is wonderful to have it back in print.

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