„… love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.“
— Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
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Geburtstag: 7. Januar 1945
Todesdatum: 28. August 2012
Shulamith Firestone war eine in Kanada geborene Schriftstellerin und Begründerin des Radikalfeminismus in den USA. Sie war eine der prominentesten und einflussreichsten Theoretikerinnen der internationalen Frauenbewegungen in den 1960er/70er Jahren. Ihr Buch The Dialectic of Sex wird bis in die Gegenwart als feministisches Grundlagenwerk diskutiert.
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„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..."“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), http://books.google.com/books?id=YnY10fNqqp4C&q=%22There+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%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage
„To grant that the sexual imbalance of power is biologically based is not to lose our case. We are no longer just animals. And the Kingdom of Nature does not reign absolute.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter One
„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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter One
„Freudianism and Feminism grew from the same soil. It is no accident that Freud began his work at the height of the early feminist movement.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Three
„We can also see the class basis of the emerging concept of child hood in the system of child education that came in along with it. If childhood was only an abstract concept, then the modern school was the institution that built it into reality.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four
„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."“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), 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
„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."“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), 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
„Because class oppression of women and children couched in the phraseology of "cute" it is much harder to fight than open oppression.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four
„Women have been allowed to achieve individuality only though their appearance.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Six
„In the Middle Ages there was no such thing as childhood. The medieval view of children was profoundly different from ours.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four
„There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), http://books.google.com/books?id=YnY10fNqqp4C&q=%22There+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%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage
„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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Two, "On American Feminism
„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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Four
„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!“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), is the closest to the truth. http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm
„The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
„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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter Three
„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.“
— Shulamith Firestone, buch The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
