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Scrungle Gungle
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Freudianism and Feminism! I’m not read enough on psychoanalysis to say how accurate her depiction is. I think Firestone is touching on similar ground that Dworkin does by talking about the separation of sex from emotion - though Dworkin talks more about how Force used by Male Supremacist Society removes the ability for intercourse to be conducted without women being urged to perform.
— Jan 06, 2026 07:01AM
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Scrungle Gungle
is on page 40 of 240
An interesting history of American feminism (with little in the way of citations) and some of Firestone’s own political analysis on the fledgling variants of feminism in her time. Any time she mentions the work done by the Black Panthers, though, I get nervous because Firestone has a tendency to get racist.
— Jan 04, 2026 09:56PM
Scrungle Gungle
is on page 15 of 240
Firestone does more to explain sex-class as a working term over Dworkin. What is interesting is Firestone’s embrace of artificial birth, insemination, etc., and general (as it seems so far) trust in technology’s ability to aid in the development of a more egalitarian society with dissolved sex distinctions, while Dworkin is considerably frightened by this idea - a fear that takes up a chapter in Right-Wing Women.
— Jan 03, 2026 09:39PM
Scrungle Gungle
is on page 14 of 240
Well. Here we are. The introduction briefly slips into the usual RadFem happenstance of racism before moving on to discuss a fairly interesting, though possibly unconvincing, modification to historical materialism with Freudian psych and sex-class analysis.
— Jan 03, 2026 09:38PM
