Shulamith Firestone, a widely quoted feminist writer, who published his first book stop, "The Dialectic of Sex," at 25, only to retire from public life shortly afterwards was found dead Tuesday at his apartment in the East Village Manhattan.
Ms. Firestone apparently died of natural causes, his sister Laia Seghi Firestone said.
Subtitled "The Case for Feminist Revolution," "The Dialectic of Sex" was published by William Morrow & Company in 1970. In it, Ms. Firestone extended Marxist theories of class oppression to provide radical analysis of the oppression of women claiming sexual guilt that comes the burden of motherhood, which is for women of random pure organic.
"As the ultimate goal of socialist revolution was not only the removal of privileges economic class, but economic class distinction itself," wrote Mrs. Firestone, "so that the ultimate goal of the feminist revolution must ... not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself:. genital differences between human beings would no longer be as important culturally "
In the future utopian imagining Mrs. Firestone, reproduction would be completely separate from the idea of ??sex can be achieved through artificial insemination, the pregnancy occurs outside the body in an artificial womb. While some critics found his visionary ideas, others felt that his quixotic at best.
Check "The Dialectic of Sex" The New York Times, John Leonard wrote: "A bright and sharp mind is often at work here." However, he added, "Miss Firestone is absurd, stating that" man can not love. '
The book, which was translated into several languages, rushed Firestone lady in the front row of the second wave of feminism, alongside women like Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer and Kate Millett. The rest is taught in universities Woman studies courses.
A painter by profession, Mrs. Firestone did not envisage a career high profile as a writer, he had come to write through posters prepared by various feminist organizations that had helped to found.
The agglomeration of attention, both positive and negative, that his book has generated soon proved unsustainable, said his sister. In the years that followed, Ms. Firestone retired to a quiet and lonely life in most of the painting and writing, but published little.
His only other book, "The airless spaces," was published in 1998 by the publishing experimental Semiotext (e). A memory-in-use forms of fantasy stories that explain facts, that describes the admission of Mrs. Firestone with schizophrenia since 1980 had passed.
The second of six children of Orthodox Jews, Shulamith bathroom Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein was born in Ottawa on Jan. 7, 1945, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Louis.
The family Americanized his name Shulamith Firestone, as a child, Ms. Firestone gave his first name shoo-LAH-myth, but he was known familiarly as Shuley or Shulie.
After attending Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Firestone has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967. During this time he helped found the group Westside, a feminist organization in Chicago before moving to New York.
Yes, it was one of the founders of the three feminist organizations - women in New York, New York Redstockings radicals and radical feminists - What began as an alternative to traditional groups like the National Organization for Women.
Ms. Firestone drew renewed attention in 1997 with the release of "Shulie," an independent film by Elisabeth Elisabeth Subra Subra. Ms. Subra of 37-minute film is a shot-for-shot remake of a previous little seen documentary, also titled "Shulie," made in 1967 by four male graduate students at Northwestern University.
The film 1967, part of a documentary series about the younger generation, Ms. Firestone profiles, then an unknown art student, such as paints, talks about his life of a young woman suffering from an audit his strenuous work of a group of men teachers.
In the 1997 remake, conceived as a look back at a social landscape that seemed to have changed very little in 30 years, Ms. Firestone is played by an actress, Kim Sosso. His dialogue is spoken verbatim from the original document.
Film Subra lady, who appeared at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial and elsewhere, has been well received by critics. But the damsel in distress Firestone, who said he was upset because she had not been consulted in the course of its creation, the sister said this week.
In an interview Thursday, Ms. Subra said she had sent to Mrs. Firestone first cut of the film through an intermediary. The intermediary told him after he said that Mrs. Firestone "could be seen as an act of love, but she hated the original movie and see how my film was different."
In addition to his sister, Laia, Ms. Firestone will survive their mother, Kate Firestone Shiftan, two brothers, Ezra and Nehemiah, and another sister, Miriam Firestone shots.
A "no air spaces," Ms. Firestone writes about life after hospitalization for psychiatric therapy. The account is in the third person, but the story is:
"I had been reading Dante's" Inferno "the first time I went to the hospital, he recalled, and at a pretty good pace, but when it turned out that I could not even download anything fashion .... This let the empty days as comfortable as possible, trying not to fall under boredom and loss of hope. "
The story continues. "He was lucid, yes, at what price sometimes recognize joy in the faces of others and greed, and other emotions she could remember he had once, long ago But his life. Has ruined, and she was not a bailout. "
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