After an introduction full of clever thoughts and deep insights, Firestone systematically and unconvincingly parallels the problems of womanhood with Freud's ideas, which sounds interesting enough but doesn't really work, and weaves in a strange racism where black people are as helpless in their hatred of white people as men are in their oppression of women. I could not find any notion of a solution to the problem, of what the “Feminist Revolution” might lead to – only a sad look at a young woman who obviously grew up in an unloving and abusive family.