Susan Faludi
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| - | The feminist [[Susan Faludi]] wrote that although criticized for its radical restructuring of social beliefs, some of the basic tenets of ''The Dialectic of Sex'' have been of "lasting significance". The proposal to reproduce children outside of a women's uterus in order to free the woman of the "means of reproduction" was a scientific impossibility at that time but components of this are routine in medicine today. Faludi wrote that, "Predictably, the proposal stimulated more outrage than fresh thought, though many of Firestone’s ideas—children’s rights, an end to “male” work and traditional marriage, and social relations altered through a “cybernetic” computer revolution—have proved prescient." | + | The feminist [[Susan Faludi]] wrote that although criticized for its radical restructuring of social beliefs, some of the basic tenets of ''[[The Dialectic of Sex]]'' have been of "lasting significance". The proposal to reproduce children outside of a women's uterus in order to free the woman of the "means of reproduction" was a scientific impossibility at that time but components of this are routine in medicine today. Faludi wrote that, "Predictably, the proposal stimulated more outrage than fresh thought, though many of Firestone’s ideas—children’s rights, an end to “male” work and traditional marriage, and social relations altered through a “cybernetic” computer revolution—have proved prescient." |
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The feminist Susan Faludi wrote that although criticized for its radical restructuring of social beliefs, some of the basic tenets of The Dialectic of Sex have been of "lasting significance". The proposal to reproduce children outside of a women's uterus in order to free the woman of the "means of reproduction" was a scientific impossibility at that time but components of this are routine in medicine today. Faludi wrote that, "Predictably, the proposal stimulated more outrage than fresh thought, though many of Firestone’s ideas—children’s rights, an end to “male” work and traditional marriage, and social relations altered through a “cybernetic” computer revolution—have proved prescient." |
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