Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone
In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.
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Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone
In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.
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Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

Overview

In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230100299
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 09/13/2010
Series: Breaking Feminist Waves
Edition description: 2010
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

MANDY MERCK is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. STELLA SANDFORD is Principal Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction Mandy Merck Stella Sandford 1

Prologue: Shulamith Firestone and Sexual Difference Mandy Merck 9

Part I Technology

1 Revisiting Reprotech: Firestone and the Question of Technology Sarah Franklin 29

2 From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism Susanna Paasonen 61

3 Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia Caroline Bassett 85

Part II Sex, Love, and the Family

4 Questioning the Foundations of Heterosexual Families: Firestone on Childhood, Love, and Romance Stevi Jackson 113

5 Toward a Cybernetic Communism: The Technology of the Anti-Family Nina Power 143

6 Integration, Intersex, and Firestone's Dialectic Mandy Merck 163

Part III Dialectics

7 Technology, Nature, and Liberation: Shulamith Firestone's Dialectical Theory of Agency Tim Fisken 197

8 Sexing the State of Nature: Firestone's Materialist Manifesto Gillian Howie 215

9 The Dialectic of The Dialectic of Sex Stella Sandford 235

Epilogue: Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations Elizabeth Freeman 255

Index 277

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