Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Radical feminist theorist, co-founder of New York Radical Women and Redstockings, and author of 'The Dialectic of Sex,' a foundational second-wave text.
1945, Ottawa, Canada — 2012, New York City, USA
United States (Chicago and New York City)
Shulamith Firestone is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Radical feminist theorist, co-founder of New York Radical Women and Redstockings, and author of 'The Dialectic of Sex,' a foundational second-wave text.
Shulamith Firestone was a radical feminist theorist raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. She co-founded pioneering groups including New York Radical Women, Redstockings and New York Radical Feminists, and at twenty-five wrote 'The Dialectic of Sex' (1970), a foundational text of second-wave feminism. Her analysis of sex and reproduction shaped radical feminist thought for generations.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
Radical feminist theorist, co-founder of New York Radical Women and Redstockings, and author of 'The Dialectic of Sex,' a foundational second-wave text.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
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