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No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. Naomi Wolf

Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women''s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.

Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproductionfor as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as infe

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: 05/03/2003
      ISBN13: 9780374527877, 978-0374527877
      ISBN10: 0374527873
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. Naomi Wolf

      Originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women''s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.

      Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproductionfor as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as infe

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