Paperback. Shulamith Firestones visionary first book The Dialectic of Sex dared to look at how feminism could shape the future. Finding herself drifting into a new airless space after her experience of New York City radical feminist groups, Firestone wrote her first work of fiction.Airless Spaces portrays the psychic suffering, bureaucratized poverty and small crises of everyday life. In a series of vignettes about institutions and identity, Airless Spaces follows characters in psychiatric wards and out in the streets of New York City to move beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional spaces to record acts of cruelty and kindness.With an accompanying Reader featuring contributions by Laya Seghi, Lourdes Cintron, Susan Faludi, Chris Kraus, Lola Olufemi and Hannah Proctor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Airless Spaces (Paperback)
Publisher: Silver Press, London
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 173937178X
ISBN 13: 9781739371784
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Shulamith Firestone’s visionary first book The Dialectic of Sex dared to look at how feminism could shape the future. Finding herself drifting into a new ‘airless space’ after her experience of New York City radical feminist groups, Firestone wrote her first work of fiction.

Airless Spaces portrays the psychic suffering, bureaucratized poverty and small crises of everyday life. In a series of vignettes about institutions and identity, Airless Spaces follows characters in psychiatric wards and out in the streets of New York City to move beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional spaces to record acts of cruelty and kindness.

With an accompanying Reader featuring contributions by Laya Seghi, Lourdes Cintron, Susan Faludi, Chris Kraus, Lola Olufemi and Hannah Proctor.

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