2004/01/01 by Debora Halbert · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Contemporary Literature and Criticism #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Digital Games and Media #Feminism #Gender studies #Sociology #Childbirth
paper · doi:10.1080/1369118042000208933
openalex publication_date 2004/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Shulamith Firestone was a foundational second-wave feminist thinker. Firestone’s radical feminism argued for a future where technology was used to eliminate sexism by freeing women from childbirth and liberating both men and women from the patriarchal nuclear family. In many important ways, Firestone’s work is the precursor for contemporary cyberfeminist writing, especially the work of Donna Haraway. This paper examines Shulamith Firestone and her contribution to the information age.