FEMINISM: Reading Shulamith Firestone in the Pandemic.

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      SPECIAL UTOPIA SECTION EACHING AN ONLINE COURSE ABOUT A UTOpian manifesto from the 1960s is a brutally effective way to illuminate the dystopianism of the pandemic-stricken present, let me tell you. While sharing several of Firestone's feminist commitments, the philosopher Hortense Spillers was devastating in her takedown of The Dialectic of Sex's failure to imagine nonwhite women's liberation, as well as the contempt for Black nationalism displayed in Firestone's regrettable Chapter 5. She then published her book-length manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, through (controversially) a mainstream press. [Extracted from the article]
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