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	chicklit: book bundle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We have Shulamith Firestone to thank for creating the representation of feminists as bra burners; it was Firestone and the members of the women's lliberation groups she founded who rallied against the Miss America pageant in 1968 and planned to punctuate their protest by building a bonfire and tossing in the constraining garments.
		Firestone suggests, however, that the family-based society is the key institution of oppression of both women and children, and she asserts that driving out that oppression centers on severing the family-based social construct.
		Firestone's solution to free women from their reproductive servitude was based upon the most fundamental of freedoms—personal physical freedom—and became the foundation for her idea for a new society structure.
	www.chicklit.com /bundle/bundle15_page2.html (605 words)

	From Revolution to Repetition
		Firestone, on the other hand, bases the possibility of a feminist revolution in technological progress, that is, in the development of reproductive technology and cybernetics.
		Firestone uses a concept of progress which has a Eurocentric bias and is based on the idea that when nature is dominated progress emerges quasi-automatically out of technological development.
		According to the model of the dictatorship of the proletariat, Firestone articulates the feminist revolution as a >seizure of the control of reproduction by women< (17).
	www.women.it /quarta/workshops/literatures7/susannelettow.htm (2294 words)

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		In the 1960s and 70s, what Firestone called "the second wave of the most important revolution in history", looked at the radical action used in the women's suffrage movement as means of achieving their goals and aimed at continuing this "aborted revolution".
		Firestone's feminist revolution overturns society, eliminates sexual classes, as well as those based on ethnicity, "race", and economy, breaks down biological family structures based on ownership and rigid power relations, and redefines the concept of labour.
		Firestone thus relies on the possibility of discovering all the secrets of nature, the impossibility of which is the cornerstone of Plant's argumentation.
	www.translocal.net /susanna/revolution.html (3310 words)

	Rhizomes 4: Susanna Paasonen
		In addition to the obvious affinities to cyber terminology, Firestone relies on mechanistic understandings of the body as object to be controlled and known, belief in rationality and reason, as well as social planning and the organization of society with the aid of technology and science--themes central to contemporaneous cybernetic social theories (Mki-Kulmala 1998).
		Firestone anchors women's oppression firmly in biology and nature: women's reproductive capacity is the cause for the original division of labor, "oppression that goes back beyond recorded history to the animal kingdom itself" (Firestone 1970, 2).
		Firestone, again, refers to cybernetic, Cartesian-influenced formulations of body as perfectible machine: the self as "ghost in the machine, the centralized fountain-keeper, sole agent and administrator of the mechanized functions of the body" (Judovitz 2001, 78).
	www.rhizomes.net /issue4/paasonen.html (6002 words)

	The Medium Online - Features
		Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex (1970), was one of the first radical feminists.
		Firestone claims that the inequality between the sexes results from politics and culture.
		Writing at a time when issues of inequality persisted, Firestone claimed that men must idealize their female partner in order to love her despite the lower social status of women at the time.
	medium.sa.utoronto.ca /Archives/February12/feature_story_1.htm (1701 words)

	Walker Art Center : The Shock of the View : Elisabeth Subrin \| Shulie
		Firestone called for an end to the tyranny of niceness, to an abolition of the empire of smiles, to a renunciation of submission allied to the inarguable impossibility of domination.
		To approach the subject of Shulamith Firestone at all is to announce a participation in a debate based in, yet not trapped in, a political realm.
		The distinction Subrin brings to this subject stems from her decision to "re-make." Sometimes regarded as intertextuality in extremis, the practice of the remake has in some, in most, cases a purely novel and expedient character.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/6/BE5391BFF2D45424616C.htm (544 words)

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		The feminists have kept Shulamith in the academic closet because she was so radical.
		She advocated the destruction of the family, and marriage, total sexual liberation including the acceptance of child/adult sex and incest, and finding a technological replacement for pregnancy.
		Engels and Marx had argued that all history is the history of class struggle - the oppressor against the oppressed, the owner against the worker, and the man against the woman.
	libercratic.government.directnic.com /Journal/social/fems/feminism.htm (1280 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution: Books: Shulamith Firestone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this book, Shulamith Firestone argues that women are doomed to oppression by men as a result of female biology and that only the cybernetic mutilation of the human race can free them from the tyranny imposed on them by Nature, and more specifically their own nature.
		Shulamith Firestone's 1970 text calling for a radical re-thinking of the basis of modern social structures remains a powerful analysis of the state of patriarchy and the feminist movements of the Twentieth Centry.
		Firestone's central claim is that only in abolishing the sexual differences rooted in biology and reproduction can women, and by extension all humans, free themselves of the sex caste system which privileges men over women and children.
	www.amazon.com /Dialectic-Sex-Case-Feminist-Revolution/dp/0374527873 (2066 words)

	Firestone Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In this early feminist text, first published in 1970, Shulamith Firestone presents a history of the first wave of feminism, and draws on the works of Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, among others, to argue for a radical vision of feminist politics.
		Firestone selects seven women from the recent to the distant past who represent aspects of the "feminine" that have been lost or devalued over the course of Jewish study and practice.
		Firestone's philosophy is that a business which exists without a reason is due for an early death.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Firestone (1025 words)

	The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution -- book review
		Firestone’s idea of a “household” has enormous potential.
		This book should be required reading for those sophisticated enough to think for themselves and for those who need to be shaken up to do so.
		Shulamith Firestone created a classic more than thirty years ago, this book is just as enlightening nay even liberating today as it was then.
	www.curledup.com /dialecti.htm (330 words)

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		Shulamith Firestone, writing in The Dialectic of Sex.
		She has a section on love, which makes some bio-essentialist arguments about the differences between the sexes.
		Firestone tends to see the condition of being in (or "falling in") love strictly as the fallout from ideology, strictly as the emotional exploitation of females by males, who do not love as women do.
	home.earthlink.net /~ahunter/Same_Closet_Diff_Door/HPSISSY/firestone.html (60 words)

	thirdspace 4/1 - Mahjouri: Techno-Maternity
		In 1972, Shulamith Firestone championed artificial reproductive technologies as a way forward for feminism – arguing they could provide the means to meet her revolutionary demand for “the freeing of women from the tyranny of reproduction by every means possible” (193, italics in original).
		In her utopic vision of an egalitarian future, child-bearing would no longer fall to a woman by virtue of her biology, but rather would be taken over by technology, thereby leaving women free to enter the male-dominated public sphere, and enabling a social change that would encourage men to share the difficult responsibilities of child-rearing.
		Instead, this broad group of feminists argued that the investigation of body itself ought to be at the centre of feminist inquiry.
	www.thirdspace.ca /vol4/4_1_Mahjouri.htm (6457 words)

	Classic Feminist Writings
		Toward a Radical Movement by Heather Booth, Evie Goldfield,and Sue Munaker (1968) This paper investigates the mythology of the liberated "New Woman" as defined by the popular media of the day.
		The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. : A New View by Shulamith Firestone (1968) A radical interpretation of the feminist movement in the USA— a history largely unknown at the time.
		by Shulamith Firestone (1968) The Jeanette Rankin Brigade was a women's protest to end the SE Asia War.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/classic.html (777 words)

	The Jeanette Rankin Brigade: Woman Power?
		Rankin voted against US entrance into both WWI and WWII and was a well known feminist and peace activist.
		Shulamith Firestone analyzed the Brigade from a radical feminist point of view.)
		A lot of energy and a good few months of our early formation period were spent preparing an appropriate action for the Brigade peace march in Washington, D.C., the largest gathering of women for a political purpose since the heyday of Jeanette Rankin (the first woman elected to Congress from Montana in 1917).
	www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUArchive/rankin1.html (1090 words)

	Feminist Law Professors » Blog Archive » Recalling Shulamith Firestone’s 1968 Essay: THE ...
		To show this, we will have to dig out and completely review the whole history of the WRM in the U.S., to weigh just what it meant in political terms, and to understand the political and economic interests causing these distortions.
		Though the essay is 37 years old, some of Firestone’s observations remain remarkably trenchant today.
		This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 at 10:02 am and is filed under Feminist Legal Scholarship, Feminism and Culture.
	feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu /?p=73 (303 words)

	Rexroth's San Francisco (1970-1972)
		What we are seeing today is a series of revolutions of people and classes who have never been revolutionary and are not used to being revolting.
		When I read Kate Millet and Shulamith Firestone I am constantly being brought up short in amazement.
		Miss Millet and Miss Firestone are so right, righter than they know.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/sf/1970-72.htm (1815 words)

	Airless Spaces - The MIT Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, Shulamith Firestone wrote and published The Dialectic of Sex, immediately becoming a classic of second wave feminism across the world to this very day.
		It was one of the few books that dared to look at how radical feminism could and should shape the future; and one whose predictions (the cybernetic revolution, for example) proved startlingly prescient of issues today.
		This is a prophetic book with enormous consequences since the airless paces multiply now and begin to take over."
	mitpress.mit.edu /1570270821 (290 words)

	Over My Shoulder #24: from Shulamith Firestoneâs The Dialectic of Sex (1970): Geekery Today 2006-05-20 :: Rad Geek ...
		Hereand#8217;s the rules: Pick a quote of one or more paragraphs from something youand#8217;ve read, in print, over the course of the past week.
		Over My Shoulder #24: from Shulamith Firestoneâs The Dialectic of Sex (1970) May 20, 2006
		Pick a quote of one or more paragraphs from something you’ve read, in print, over the course of the past week.
	radgeek.com /gt/2006/05/20/over_my (605 words)

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