Firestone and Radical Feminism

Question 1

What was Firestone’s main concern with Liberal feminism?

Answer 1

That it inadequately addresses sex inequality.

Question 2

What was Firestone’s critique of Marxist feminism?

Answer 2

Marxism strictly economic definition of historical materialism

Question 3

What is historical materialism?

Answer 3

The idea is that material conditions and economic forces are the primary drivers of social change.

Question 4

What does Firestone believe will combat these issues withinn both fields of feminism?

Answer 4

The calling for a materialist view of history based on sex along with its dialectical, historical material analysis.

Question 5

What was Firestone’s call for a sexual revolution based on?

Answer 5

Elimination of sex as well as class

The elimination of both sex and class distinction.

The seizure of women, the means of reproduction as well as the socialist seizure of the means of production

Question 6

What are some of the limitations of Firestone’s radical view?

Answer 6

Making patriarchy the primary oppression over all other forms of oppression

Devaluing women’s reproductive rules recapitulates the orthodox Marxist assumption of the gender neutrality of tech