Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone (1945, also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists. In 1970, she authored The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution in which she stated that women must seize the means of reproduction. The Dialectic of Sex synthesized the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Simone de Beauvoir to put forth a feminist theory of politics and became a major text in second-wave feminism in the United States.
Firestone was born in Ottawa, Canada at the end of WWII, older sister to Rabbi Tirzah Firestone. She attended Yavney of Telshe Yeshiva, Washington University, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a BFA in painting.
See was the subject of a 1997 short film directed by Elisabeth Subrin titled Shulie.
Works
- The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution (Morrow, 1970, ISBN 068806454X; Bantam, 1979, ISBN 0553128140; Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0374527873).
- Airless Spaces, a collection of short stories (Semiotext(e), 1998, ISBN 1570270821).
External links
- The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. : A New View, an article first appearing in Notes from the First Year (New York: The New York Radical Women, 1968).