Shulamith Firestone citations (20 citations)

“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!”

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Shulamith Firestone livre The Dialectic of Sex

is the closest to the truth. http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do.”

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“The myth of childhood has an even greater parallel in the myth of Femininity. Both women and children were considered asexual and thus"purer" than man. Their inferior status was ill-concealed under an elaborate "respect."”

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One didn't discuss serious matters nor did one curse in from of women and children; one didn't openly degrade them, one did it behind their backs.

Chapter Four
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do. "When I grow up..." parallels "Oh to be a child again..."”

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“… love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

“If we had to name the one cultural current that most characterizes America in the twentieth century, it might be the work of Freud and the disciplines that grew out of it.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four

“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. It's aim: overthrow of the oldest most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex - a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles an undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Two, "On American Feminism

“The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.”

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more thanchildbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Six

“Radical Feminism. The two positions we have described usually generate a third, the radical feminist position: The women in its ranks range from disillusioned moderate feminists from NOW to disillusioned leftists from the women's liberation movement., and include others who had been waiting for just such an alternative, women for whom neither conservative bureaucratic feminism nor warmed-over leftist dogma had much appeal.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Three

“In the Middle Ages there was no such thing as childhood. The medieval view of children was profoundly different from ours.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four

“The assumption that, beneath economics, reality is psychosexual is often rejected as ahistorical by those who accept a dialectical materialist view of history because it seems to land us back where Marx began: groping through a fog of utopian hypotheses, philosophical systems that might be right, that might be wrong (there is no way to tell); systems that explain concrete historical developments by a priori categories of thought; historical materialism, however, attempted to explain 'knowing' by 'being' and not vice versa.”

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“Women have been allowed to achieve individuality only though their appearance.”

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“Because class oppression of women and children couched in the phraseology of "cute" it is much harder to fight than open oppression.”

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Source: The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four

“Contemporary slang reflects this animal state: children are "mice," "rabbits," "kittens," women are called "chicks," in England "birds," "hens," "dumb clucks," "silly geese," "old mares," "bitches."”

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Shulamith Firestone livre The Dialectic of Sex

Similar terminology is used about males as a defamation of character, or more broadly only about pressed males males: stud, wold, cat, stag, jack - and then it is used much more rarely, and often with a specifically sexual connotation.

Chapter Four
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)