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""One way to think of Firestone’s decline is to see her as an anti-feminist cautionary tale, an object lesson in how feminist politics can estrange a woman from society and render her incapable of functioning within it. But another way to read the story of Firestone’s life is equally disquieting: it raises the question of whether there is any difference between madness and being the only sane person in a sick world."" —Moira Donegan, The New Yorker ""Airless Spaces is a remarkable book, the work of an artist who had continued to analyze and critique the conditions in which she was surviving, to observe in and around them larger struggles and injustices."" —Lidija Haas, Bookforum

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Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012) was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in St. Louis, MO. After receiving a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, she moved to New York City. There she founded some of the first—and foremost—radical feminist organizations in the United States. In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, she published The Dialectic of Sex, one of the most widely discussed books of the second-wave feminist movement. Semiotext(e) published Airless Spaces, her second book, in 1998. Chris Kraus is the founding editor of Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series. She is the author of nine books, including, most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography.

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