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  1. theconversation.com

    Second-wave feminist Shulamith Firestone was mocked when she published a 1970 manifesto advocating artifical wombs, but her arguments about the exploitation of reproductive labour remain timely.
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    Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein [1] was born in Ottawa, Canada on January 7, 1945. [12] Firestone was the second of six children and the first daughter of parents Kate Weiss, a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and Sol Feuerstein, a Brooklyn salesman. [3] Firestone's parents were Orthodox Jews. [13] In April 1945, when Firestone was four months old, her father took part in the ...
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  5. revisesociology.com

    Shulamith Firestone argues that that the main cause of gender inequality is the biological fact of childbirth - which puts women at a physical disadvantage to men. She suggests that we need to develop an artificial womb so that women have the choice to be free from the biological necessity of childbirth.
  6. encyclopedia.com

    Shulamith FirestoneCanadian-born feminist writer Shulamith Firestone (born 1945) was just 25 years old when her first book, The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution, ignited a minor firestorm of controversy and public debate in 1970. In it, Firestone argued that true gender equality was impossible to achieve until science freed women from their biological role as bearers of children.
  7. nplusonemag.com

    I first met Shulie over Labor Day weekend in 1967, at the National Conference for New Politics — an unsuccessful attempt to unite the organized left behind a presidential ticket that would campaign against the war in Vietnam. A couple of women had persuaded the conference organizers to give them some space for a women's caucus. Black caucuses at such meetings were common and accepted, but ...
  8. ethics.org.au

    If you can put a man on the moon, you make a mechanical womb and gestate a baby without a woman. These were the arguments of Shulamith Firestone (1945 — 2012), writer, artist and feminist, whose book, The Dialectic of Sex, argued the structure of the biological family was primarily to blame for the oppression of women.
  9. SHULAMITH FIRESTONE WRITER 7-1-1945 — August 2012 . SHULAMITH Firestone was one of the early radical American women's liberationists who provided the theoretical foundation for a second wave of ...
  10. historyworkshop.org.uk

    But there were many, many other women for whom the break-up with the left, and the injunction against heterosexual relationships that followed, was full of heartbreak. Indeed, none other than Shulamith Firestone was dismayed when, in 1968, some of those in New York Radical Women suggested the group sponsor an all-women's dance.
  11. appropriate for such an autonomous being. For women and children, this right is violated by legal and social strictures on their actions, enforced by economic sanctions. Firestone believes that such practices with respect to women and children are reprehensible (1970, ch. 4). Not only do women and children suffer the same kind of oppression, but

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    Shulamith Firestone

    Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer (1945-2012)

    Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. Within these radical movements, Firestone became known as "the firebrand" and "the fireball" for the fervor and passion she expressed towards the cause. Firestone participated in activism such as speaking out at The National Conference for New Politics in Chicago. Also while a member of various feminist groups she participated in actions including protesting a Miss America Contest, organizing a mock funeral for womanhood known as "The Burial of Traditional Womanhood", protesting sexual harassment at Madison Square Garden, organizing abortion speakouts, and disrupting abortion legislation meetings. Wikipedia

    BornShulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein, January 7, 1945, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Age at death67 years
    Diedc. August 28, 2012, New York City, U.S.
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