In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.
Introduction; M.Merck Prologue: Shulamith Firestone and Sexual Difference; M.Merck PART I: TECHNOLOGY Revisiting Reprotech: Shulamith Firestone and the Question of Technology; S.Franklin From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism; S.Paasonen Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia; C.Bassett PART II: SEX, LOVE, AND THE FAMILY Firestone on Childhood, Love, and Romance: Questioning the Foundations of Heterosexual Family Life; S.Jackson Towards a Cybernetic Communism: The Technology of the Anti-Family; N.Power Integration, Intersex, and Firestone's Dialectic; M.Merck PART III: DIALECTIC Technology, Nature, and Liberation: Shulamith Firestone's Dialectical Theory of Agency; T.Fisken Sexing the State of Nature: Firestone's Materialist Manifesto; G.Howie The Dialectic of The Dialectic of Sex; S.Sandford Epilogue: Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations; E.Freeman
