The Dialectic of S3x: The Case for Feminist Revolution

for Simone de Beauvoir who endured

When we consider and reflect upon Nature at large or the history of mankind or our own intellectual activity at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where, and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away. We see therefore at first the picture as a whole with its individual parts still more or less kept in the background; we observe the movements, transitions, connections, rather than the things that move, combine, and are connected. This primitive, naive, but intrinsically correct conception of the world is that of ancient Greek philosophy, and was first clearly formulated by Heraclitus: everything is and is not, for everything is fluid, is constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away.

FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Key to Abbreviations

AFL American Federation of Labor

DAR Daughters of the American Revolution

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association

NOW National Organization of Women

SDS Students for a Democratic Society

VISTA Volunteers in Service to America

WRM Women's Rights Movement