AIRLESS SPACES by Shulamith Firestone
£13.99
AIRLESS SPACES by Shulamith Firestone
£13.99
Title Airless Spaces
Author(s)/Editor(s) Shulamith Firestone
Publisher Silver Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 128 x 198 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2025

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

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.

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