Feminist Shulamith Firestone Dead at 67
Best-selling author of The Dialectic of Sex found in her apartment.
Shulamith Firestone, a pioneering feminist who shot to fame at age 25 with her best-selling book, "The Dialectic of Sex," was found dead in her East Village apartment on Tuesday. She was 67.
Alerted by neighbors, who had smelled a strong odor from her apartment, her superintendent peered in through a window from the fire escape and saw her body on the floor. Her landlord, Bob Perl, said she had probably been dead about a week. He said her one-bedroom unit included rows of books, including Greek classics.
Suffering from mental illness, she had shut herself off from contact with other people. Perl said the cause of death is unclear at this point — police said it wasn't starvation — and that the coroner's report should provide an answer.
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