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Shulamith Firestone

1945 - 2012

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Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. Within these radical movements, Firestone became known as "the firebrand" and "the fireball" for the fervor and passion she expressed towards the cause. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shulamith Firestone has received more than 578,703 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Shulamith Firestone is the 2,634th most popular writer (down from 2,238th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Canada (down from 131st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 31

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  • 3.45

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shulamith Firestone ranks 2,634 out of 5,755Before her are Jeremias Gotthelf, Yasushi Inoue, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Takuboku Ishikawa, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and May Ziade. After her are Joseph Delaney, Ibn Kemal, Esaias Tegnér, Ngaio Marsh, Naoya Shiga, and Avetik Isahakyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Shulamith Firestone ranks 204Before her are Golden State Killer, Neophyte of Bulgaria, Joanna Cassidy, Marianne Sägebrecht, Pablo Forlán, and Bob Seger. After her are Joseph Delaney, Stephen Stills, Dimitar Penev, Leonid Popov, Christophe, and Antonio Cañizares Llovera. Among people deceased in 2012, Shulamith Firestone ranks 143Before her are John Christopher, Ruggiero Ricci, Lakshmi Sahgal, Russell Means, Marie Colvin, and Eiko Ishioka. After her are Iajuddin Ahmed, Albert O. Hirschman, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, J. Christopher Stevens, Lars Hörmander, and Ignatius Moses I Daoud.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Shulamith Firestone ranks 155 out of 1,350Before her are Raymond Burr (1917), Marie Dressler (1868), Arthur Hiller (1923), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Chris Benoit (1967), and Robert D. Hare (1934). After her are James Doohan (1920), Brian Mulroney (1939), Terry Sawchuk (1929), Stephen Harper (1959), Michael Bublé (1975), and David Shore (1959).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Shulamith Firestone ranks 8Before her are Alice Munro (1931), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), A. E. van Vogt (1912), Brian Tracy (1944), and David Morrell (1943). After her are David Shore (1959), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Naomi Klein (1970), Mordecai Richler (1931), and Gordon R. Dickson (1923).