Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Firestone (1945, also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists. In 1970, she authored The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution in which she stated that women must seize the means of reproduction. The Dialectic of Sex synthesized the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Simone de Beauvoir to put forth a feminist theory of politics and became a major text in second-wave feminism in the United States.

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1945 - Chicago Women's Liberation Union - 1969 - Redstockings - New York Radical Feminists - 1970 - The Dialectic of Sex - Sigmund Freud - Karl Marx - Frederick Engels - Simone de Beauvoir - Second-wave feminism

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Firestone was born in Ottawa, Canada at the end of WWII, older sister to Rabbi Tirzah Firestone. She attended Yavney of Telshe Yeshiva, Washington University, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a BFA in painting.

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Ottawa - Canada - WWII - Tirzah Firestone - Yavney of Telshe Yeshiva - Washington University - Art Institute of Chicago - BFA

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She was the subject of a 1997 short film directed by Elisabeth Subrin titled Shulie.

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Elisabeth Subrin - Shulie

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