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The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone
The idea is that in a total equalitarian system governed by machines, women will stop to be the ones who have to undergo pregnancy and give birth, that is the main difference between the 2 genders, and what makes things all so difficult for women in society. Kids will be produced with birth machines, and assigned at birth to already formed "groups". This procedure will help erase from mankind the idea of family, and incest taboo, that for Freudian psychology, works as the great inhibitor of our subconscious; then of all our potentials.
In such a futuristic scenario, kids, as all women and all men, will have the right to be active, socially and sexually. Sex is recommended between all members of the groups, since they won't be formed by real blood-bonds; all groups will have the freedom to stay together, split, and do as they wish as single individuals. Groups can decide to adopt new members-kids too, or even mature ones.
Machines will inhance the personal freedom, as all the main works will be automated, humans will only have to dedicate themselves to the activities that they really like: because of this, the avarage satisfaction and quality of work should be increased. The role of sex especially would help this creativity, being free, it will enhance the "passions" of the individuals too in every aspect of life...
The author of this book became schyzophrenic and spent the last years of her life living alone, under prescriptions.
This is one of the first feminist manifesto.