<p>‘A prophetic book with enormous consequences, since the airless spaces multiply now and begin to take over.’ – Kate Millet</p><p>‘In the century I’m most familiar with, the twentieth, the explosion was never-ending, the pieces tinier and tinier. Shulamith Firestone, in her radical insider’s tale, informs us repeatedly like lightly pelting rain that all of us are vanishing in a century of institutions that take and take until everyone has gone away and there’s no one left to shut the door.’ – Eileen Myles</p><p>‘Betty Friedan proposed letting someone else make the bread; Firestone imagines a new society. . . With a name like Shulamith Firestone, how could you not change the world?’ – Joanna Biggs</p>