Shulamith Firestone

Also known as Shulie, Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone

Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer (1945-2012)

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Espacios sin aire
Notes from the third year
Notes from the second year
Dialectic of Sex
Zones mortes

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Country: NL
Active from: 1964-09-20
Active to: 2013-07-01

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Review of Particle Physics
· 2018 · cited 5,698x
Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly
· 2018 · cited 2,089x
ENDF/B-VIII.0: The 8 th Major Release of the Nuclear Reaction Data Library with CIELO-project Cross Sections, New Standards and Thermal Scattering Data
· 2018 · cited 2,054x
A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming
· 2020 · cited 1,199x
The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages
· 2016 · cited 1,088x

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Quotes

“Sex class is so deep as to be invisible. Or it may appear as a superficial inequality, one that can be solved by merely a few reforms, or perhaps by the full integration of women into the labour force. But the reaction of the common man, woman, and child - That? Why you can't change that! You must be out of your mind!' - is the closest to the truth.”
“Women throughout history before the advent of birth control were at the continual mercy of their biology - menstruation, menopause, and "female ills," constant painful childbirth, wetnursing and care of infants, all of which made them dependent on males (whether brother, father, husband, lover, or clan, government, community-at-large) for physical survival.”
“Though the sex class system may have originated in fundamental biological conditions, this does not guarantee once the biological basis of their oppression has been swept away that women and children will be freed.”
“The fifties was the bleakest decade of all, perhaps the bleakest in some centuries for women.”
“Feminism, in truth, has a cyclical momentum all its own. In the historical interpretation we have espoused, feminism is the inevitable female response to the development of a technology capable of freeing women from the tyranny of their sexual-reproductive roles – both the fundamental biological condition itself, and the sexual class system built upon, and reinforcing, this biological condition.”
“The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.”

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Key facts

Born: Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein , ( 1945-01-07 ) January 7, 1945, Ottawa , Ontario, Canada
Died: August 28, 2012 (2012-08-28) (aged 67), New York City , U.S.
Burial place: Wellwood Cemetery West Babylon, New York
Education: Washington University Art Institute of Chicago ( BFA )
Notable work: The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
Movement: Radical feminism Second-wave feminism
Relatives: Tirzah Firestone (sister)

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date of birth: 1945-01-07
date of death: 2012-08-28
name in native language: Shulamith Firestone
birth name: Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein
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Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a radical feminist writer and activist. She was a prominent figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical feminist organizations: New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. Within these movements, she was referred to by some as "the firebrand" and "the fireball" due to the intensity with which she advocated for feminist causes.

In 1967, she spoke at the National Conference for New Politics in Chicago. In 1968, she organized a symbolic event referred to as "The Burial of Traditional Womanhood" and participated in the Miss America protest later that year. She protested sexual harassment at Madison Square Garden, organized abortion speakouts, and disrupted abortion legislation meetings.