A genderless society. Is that possible to imagine? The legacy of Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig for present-day feminisms

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_filanderas/fil.2024911390

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Gender, Sexual Difference, Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, Women's Liberation Movement

Abstract

Is it possible to imagine a society without gender and sexual difference? This article searches for answers in the context of the late-1960s United States and France and, specifically, in the writings of two radical feminists in the incipient Women’s Libe-
ration Movement: Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig. Both produced works through which this (im) possible society can be imagined: Les Guérillères, published by Wittig in 1969, and The Dialectic of Sex, by Firestone, in 1970. Their legacy is important to the understanding of many of the debates between modern-day feminisms, around the complexity of the categories of identity or the subject of feminism itself.

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Trabajo ganador del XXVII Premio de Investigaciones Feministas "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer".

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2024-12-20

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No. 9 (2024)

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Coloma Aceña, P. (2024). A genderless society. Is that possible to imagine? The legacy of Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig for present-day feminisms. Filanderas, 9, 67-86. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_filanderas/fil.2024911390