{"product_id":"the-dialectic-of-sex-9780374527877","title":"The Dialectic of Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. Naomi Wolf\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Dialectic of Sex \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first book of the women''s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525036384599,"sku":"9780374527877","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374527877.jpg?v=1731859015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dialectic-of-sex-9780374527877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}