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Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; [1] January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) [2] was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: New York Radical Women ...
Apr 8, 2013 · The WBAI radio host Fran Luck called for the Tenth Street studio to be named the Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment, and rented “in perpetuity” to “an older and meaningful feminist.”
Aug 12, 2019 · Second-wave feminist Shulamith Firestone was mocked when she published a 1970 manifesto advocating artifical wombs, but her arguments about the exploitation of reproductive labour remain timely.
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Shulamith (Shulie) Firestone was a feminist theorist known for her book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, published when she was only 25 years old. Born in Canada in 1945 to an Orthodox Jewish family, Shulamith Firestone moved to the United States as a child and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She was the subject ...
Shulamith Firestone helped create several radical feminist groups. With Jo Freeman, she started The Westside Group, an early consciousness-raising group in Chicago. In 1967, Firestone was one of the founding members of New York Radical Women. When NYRW split into factions amid disagreement about what direction the group should take, she launched Re...
In her 1968 essay “The Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.A: New View,” Shulamith Firestone asserted that women’s rights movements have always been radical, and have always been strongly opposed and stamped out. She pointed out that it was extremely difficult for 19th-century women to take on the church, the entrenched law of white male power, and ...
- Linda Napikoski
Oct 21, 2020 · Firestone speculated that artificial womb technology might further curtail women’s reproductive rights, pushing back the boundary of life, and with it the boundary of legal abortion. Was Firestone revolted by the gestating female body?
- Erin Maglaque
Apr 15, 2013 · From Wonder Woman to Shulamith Firestone to Joanna Russ, visions of societies run by women or absent of gender altogether have existed for almost a century.
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Jun 23, 2021 · Firestone, a founder of radical feminism, brought together the dialectical materialism of Marx and the psychoanalytic insights of Freud in an effort to develop an analysis of women’s oppression that was inclusive of the dimensions of class and race.
