Firestone, Shulamith (1945–)

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Firestone, Shulamith (1945–)

Canadian feminist. Born in Ottawa, Canada, 1945; studied at Art Institute of Chicago.

Active as a student in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, gained prominence in women's movement through her controversial book, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970); during early 1970s, also co-founded and was editor of the journals Notes from the Second Year and Redstockings and remained active in the New York feminist movement; with Chris Kraus, published Airless Spaces (1998).

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