Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Firestone (also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists . In 1970, she authored The Dialectic of Sex: a case for feminist revolution in which she stated that women must sieze the means of reproduction. The Dialectic of Sex synthesized the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and Simone de Beauvoir to put forth a feminist theory of politics and became a major text in second-wave feminism in the United States.

Firestone was born, in Ottawa, Canada at the end of WWII. She attended Yavney of Telshe Yeshiva , Washington University, and the Art Insitute of Chicago, where she earned a BFA in painting.