Shulamith Firestone’s Postmortem for Radical Feminism

Shulamith Firestone’s Postmortem for Radical Feminism

Shulamith Firestone’s writing captured the utopian spirit of radical feminism. In her last published book, Airless Spaces, she took stock of that movement’s failures amid the crisis of care unleashed by the destruction of the welfare state. Still from Shulie: Shulamith Firestone, 1967. (SAIC) Throughout the second half of the 1990s, a wave of articles published in the mainstream US media declared, with jolting regularity, the end of feminism. B…