The second installment of The Judith Center Book Club will focus on Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex (1970), a foundational feminist text that questioned the idea of gender as natural or fixed, instead understanding it as a political and material system shaped by social arrangements. Writing decades ahead of much contemporary theory, Firestone traced gender hierarchy to reproductive labor and the structure of family life, showing how biological difference becomes oppressive through the ways it is organized and enforced. Her forward-looking engagement with technology as a possible site of feminist intervention—particularly in relation to reproduction—anticipates later anti-naturalist and technomaterialist approaches to gender, including strands of contemporary thought such as xenofeminism. Lana Dee Povitz, Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College, will join the conversation as a special guest. Povitz is currently authoring a biography of Firestone.