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Shulamith Firestone (Jan. 7, 1945 - circa Aug. 21, 2012) was a radical feminist, best-known for her 1970 work The Dialectic of Sex, which was a strong influence on theory around women's relations to children and parenting, and on Marge Piercy as she wrote Woman on the Edge of Time.

Firestone was paranoid-schizophrenic, and was isolated in her later years. She died in August, 2012, in her East Village Apartment.

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970) ("“No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory, second-wave landmark" -- Naomi Wolf)
Airless Spaces (1998 memoir about schizophrenia)

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	'''Shulamith Firestone''' (~~circa~~ 1945 - 2012) was a [[radical feminist]], best-known for her 1970 work ''[[The Dialectic of Sex]]'', which was a strong influence on theory around women's relations to children and parenting, and on [[Marge Piercy]] as she wrote ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''.		'''Shulamith Firestone''' (Jan. 7, 1945 - circa Aug. 21, 2012) was a [[radical feminist]], best-known for her 1970 work ''[[The Dialectic of Sex]]'', which was a strong influence on theory around women's relations to children and parenting, and on [[Marge Piercy]] as she wrote ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]''.

	Firestone was paranoid-schizophrenic, and was isolated in her later years. She died in August, 2012, in her East Village Apartment.		Firestone was paranoid-schizophrenic, and was isolated in her later years. She died in August, 2012, in her East Village Apartment.