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Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

Editors: Merck, Mandy; Sandford, Stella

DOI: 10.1057/9780230109995

ISBN: 978-1-349-28650-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 10, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Merck, Mandy; Sandford, Stella

Pages: 1 –8

[In the forty years since these words were first published, The Dialectic of Sex has had a strange history. Written by the then twenty-five-year-old Shulamith Firestone, it first appeared in the autumn of 1970, the same year as Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Sexual...
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Prologue: Shulamith Firestone and Sexual Difference

Merck, Mandy

Pages: 9 –26

[Sexual difference, according to Jean Baudrillard, disappeared by the 1980s, supplanted by “a new game of sexual indifference.” The sexual revolution had left behind an agnosticism of identity and desire whose emblematic figure was the transsexual, neither masculine nor feminine and invulnerable...
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Revisiting Reprotech: Firestone and the Question of Technology

Franklin, Sarah

Pages: 29 –60

[If any single argument is associated with The Dialectic of Sex, it is Firestone’s claim that women will only be freed from the tyranny of biology through new reproductive technologies. This is not an inaccurate attribution—artificial reproduction was central to Firestone’s manifesto and the...
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From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism

Paasonen, Susanna

Pages: 61 –83

[The first wave of cyberfeminism—various projects, publications and debates—came in the 1990s. The artist group VNS Matrix, inspired by Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” authored their own cyberfeminist manifesto in 1991;1 Sadie Plant first theorized the feminization of culture...
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Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia

Bassett, Caroline

Pages: 85 –110

[As I write this chapter confirmation drifts in from the radio; forty years on Shulamith Firestone’s hopes for new forms of automated reproduction have not been realized—but neither have they been abandoned. Despite many developments in reproductive technology, they remain, as they were in her...
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Questioning the Foundations of Heterosexual Families: Firestone on Childhood, Love, and Romance

Jackson, Stevi

Pages: 113 –141

[Among the most radical elements of The Dialectic of Sex is Firestone’s attack on the foundations of the conventional, heterosexual nuclear family. The best-known aspects of her critique are, of course, her identification of biological reproduction as the central determinant of women’s...
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Toward a Cybernetic Communism: The Technology of the Anti-Family

Power, Nina

Pages: 143 –162

[In The Dialectic of Sex Shulamith Firestone declares her version of communism to be the most radical yet incorporating and extending the vision of hitherto existing revolutionary thought through the inclusion of two often-ignored components of human and social life—the unconscious and the...
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Integration, Intersex, and Firestone’s Dialectic

Merck, Mandy

Pages: 163 –193

[Seeking precedents for their struggle for equality, the feminists of the 1960s readily turned to the American civil rights movement. Simone de Beauvoir, the dedicatee of The Dialectic of Sex, had herself taken Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 study of “The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,” The American...
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Technology, Nature, and Liberation: Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectical Theory of Agency

Fisken, Tim

Pages: 197 –214

[There is the appearance of something paradoxical in Firestone’s dedication of The Dialectic of Sex to Simone de Beauvoir. Where Beauvoir argued that “one is not born a woman, but, rather, becomes one,”1 relegating biology to the section of The Second Sex on the “myth” of destiny, Firestone opens...
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Sexing the State of Nature: Firestone’s Materialist Manifesto

Howie, Gillian

Pages: 215 –234

[In The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone appears to argue, in a very straight-forward way, that male dominance is independent of other social factors and that there is an historical correlation between this dominance and (natural) reproductive sex-roles. This model of domination, she...

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