Firstly, read what Shulamith Firestone has to say.

Secondly, recognize that this work was published in 1970.
Thirdly, become grandly and righteously pissed off that women’s intellectual history is carefully hidden from them and thus, each generation is forced to start from scratch in the struggle to raise their consciousness and name their oppression.
Fourthly, organize and lobby schools/school boards to have Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex become a part of the curriculum so we can arm the women in our society with the theory and knowledge that has already been demarcated, so the struggle can move onto new ground instead of reclaiming what has already been unearthed.
Fifthly, share widely at least this small part of Firestone’s work, so women in the struggle right now can see that they are not alone and that people have been exactly where they are right now, just that no one them about their foresisters work.



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October 25, 2017 at 10:09 am
bob browning
Elementary my dear Watson, I occasionally come across a perspective that I wish would be required reading in schools. Wouldn’t a citizens committee do a service toward change compared to the status quo hacks that now set curricula? Even the debate within the committee would do wonders.
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