What Happened to Shulamith Firestone and the Movement She Helped Create?
LatestSusan Faludi’s lengthy New Yorker piece on Shulamith Firestone, the brilliant feminist pioneer who authored The Dialectic of Sex and founded the first major radical-feminist groups in the country before she was in her late 20s, is a heartbreaking must-read. Firestone withdrew from feminism almost as quickly as she helped shape the second-wave movement, and lived a life of solitude and bouts of schizophrenia until she died alone in her apartment last August.