The Dialectic of Sex | work by Firestone | Britannica (original) (raw)

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feminism

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  In feminism: Dissension and debate
  …New York Radical Feminists, published The Dialectic of Sex in the same year, insisting that love disadvantaged women by creating intimate shackles between them and the men they loved—men who were also their oppressors. One year later, Germaine Greer, an Australian living in London, published The Female Eunuch, in which…
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science fiction

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  In science fiction: Sex and gender
  …embraced Shulamith Firestone’s feminist tract The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution (1970); though the book was not written with a science fiction audience in mind, it nevertheless declared that women could never be free of oppression until the physical acts of childbearing and child rearing were…
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