Manifesto!

Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

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Show Notes

Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD)

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex

http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf

Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/

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