Shulamith Firestone

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.

She co-founded three radical feminist organizations in New York, the New York Radical Women, the Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists.

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 fictionalized memoir stories about schizophrenia)
• Editor, Notes from the First Year (1968 collection)

Further research

• Obituary, The Villager, Aug. 30, 2012
• Wikipedia
• obituary, NYT, 2012/08/31
• "Shulie" (1997 film by Elisabeth Subrin, remaking an earlier 1967 documentary)
• Obituary, LA Times (2012/09/02)

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