Shulamith Firestone: Airless Spaces

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A follow-up to Firestone's visionary 'The Dialectic of Sex'. 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 Firestone Seghi, Lourdes Cintron, Susan Faludi, Chris Kraus, Lola Olufemi and Hannah Proctor.ISBN 9781739371784. Silver Press. pb. 256 pages.available Show more