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Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone Victoria Margree

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone By Victoria Margree

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone by Victoria Margree


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Should pregnancy and childbirth be transformed, in order for women to be free?

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone Summary

Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone by Victoria Margree

Shulamith Firestones The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The books thesis is that the origins of womens oppression lie in biology: in the fact that it is women and not men who conceive and give birth to children. Firestones solution is revolutionary: since it is biology that is the problem, then biology must be changed, through technological intervention that would have as its end the complete removal of the reproductive process from womens bodies. With its proposal for the development of artificial wombs, its call for the abolition of the nuclear family and its vision of a cybernetic future, Firestones manifesto may seem hopelessly out-dated, a far-fetched, utopian hangover of Swinging Sixties radicalism. This book, on the contrary, will argue for its importance to the resurgent feminism of today as a text that interrogates issues around gender, biology, sexuality, work and technology, and the ways in which our imaginations in the 21st century continue to be in thrall to ideologies of maternity and the nuclear family.

About Victoria Margree

Dr Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton, where she teaches feminist politics and theory, literature, critical theory and conflict studies. She and her partner live in Brighton and, whenever possible, Munich.

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GOR012350068
9781785355394
1785355392
Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone by Victoria Margree
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Collective Ink
2018-06-29
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