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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
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3.75
This was extremely interesting. Some radical and challenging writing, and very much of its time. What I found most interesting was the analysis of feminist movement through the lens/comparison to Marxism and Freudism. The conceptions of love and romanticism were also interesting, as was the framing of culture as a currently unbridged and gendered division between science/aesthetics.
I didn't agree with a lot of this, some doesn't stand in a 2020s context, and some takes are wildly problematic (the chapter on race, and commentary on child sexuality and incest).
However I can see how this book was massively influential in its time and I'm interested to look more into cyberfeminism and xenofeminism, which it inspired.
I didn't agree with a lot of this, some doesn't stand in a 2020s context, and some takes are wildly problematic (the chapter on race, and commentary on child sexuality and incest).
However I can see how this book was massively influential in its time and I'm interested to look more into cyberfeminism and xenofeminism, which it inspired.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Incest, Racism, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Pregnancy
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