Vance Miguel Johnson’s Reviews > The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution > Status Update

Shulamith clearly cares a lot about the exact definition of what she’s saying, and unfortunately repeatedly clouds the points her sentences are aiming to make by the overuse of interrupting emdashes and parenthesis. She’s obsessed with clarifying things that really should be handled in their own sentences. I’ve had to mentally reorganize 3 or 4 clauses within 1 sentence to understand what she IS arguing is true

“Why should a woman give up her precious seat in the cattle car for a bloody struggle she could not hope to win?” Makes me think of all the feminists leading movements today around Palestine, queer rights, immigration, and against the war on Iran. Being a feminist is truly an all encompassing activist role.

“This gut reaction — the assumption that, even when they don’t know it, feminists are talking about changing a fundamental biological condition — is an honest one. That so profound a change cannot be easily fitted into traditional categories of thought, e.g., ‘political’, is not because these categories do not apply but because they are not big enough : radical feminism bursts through them.”