Shulamith Firestone

Shulamith Firestone and the burdens of prophecy.

Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that its gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

Like most cultural shifts in language, the rise of white, upper-middle class women who call themselves ‘mama’ seemed to happen slowly, and then all at once.

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

In the sixties and seventies, the Sullivanian Institute had a winning sales pitch for young New Yorkers: parties, sex, low rent, and affordable therapy.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.

Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.