Shulamith Firestone

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.

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

Works

• 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)

Further reading

• Obituary, The Villager, Aug. 30, 2012
• Wikipedia
• obituary, NYT, 2012/08/31

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