The Dialectic Of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution

Shulamith Firestone

ISBN 10: 0224005413 / ISBN 13: 9780224005418

Published by Johnathan Cape, 1971

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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 reproduction-for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal. DJ; Owner's Name inside. Fading and wear on dust jacket. Page edges beginning to fox. Otherwise good condition. 274 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dialectic Of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution
• Publisher: Johnathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224005413
• ISBN 13: 9780224005418
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

Beginning with the premise that there is a fundamental biological inequality in the sexes, the author presents her classic blueprint for social revolution. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.