The Dialectic of Sex
Subtitle: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: March 5, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780374527877
First sentence: Sex class is so deep as to be invisible.
Description: "Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproduction?for as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as inferior. Ultimately she presents feminism as the key radical ideology, the missing link between Marx and Freud, uniting their visions of the political and the personal." --