The Vanishing Dialectic
Abstract
The discussion of Shulamith Firestone’s 1970 The Dialectic of Sex centers on four concepts designed to animate different dimensions of Firestone’s potential legacy, each of which offers a specific way of thinking about the relationship among past, present, and future: the utopian manifesto, the vanishing mediator, an allegory of the present, and an archive of the future.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Gender and Feminist Studies
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 69–92
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter