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Exquisite rebel : the essays of Voltairine de Cleyre : feminist, anarchist, genius / Voltairine de Cleyre ; Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anarchism--United States.
- Anarchism.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- De Cleyre, Voltairine, 1866-1912--Criticism and interpretation.
- De Cleyre, Voltairine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Emma Goldman called Voltairine de Cleyre "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Yet her writings and speeches on anarchism and feminism - as radical, passionate, and popular at the time as Goldman's - are virtually unknown today. This important book brings de Cleyre's eloquent and incisive work out of undeserved obscurity. Twenty-one essays are reprinted here, including her classic works: "Anarchism and the American Tradition," "The Dominant Idea," and "Sex Slavery." Three biographical essays are also included: two new ones by Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell, and a rarely reprinted one from Emma Goldman."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Intro
- Exquisite Rebel
- Contents
- Foreword by Candace Falk
- Acknowledgments
- I. Biographical Essays: Three Views of Voltairine de Cleyre
- Priestess of Pity and Vengeance" by Crispin Sartwell
- The Exquisite Rebel: The Anarchist Life of Voltairine de Cleyre" by Sharon Presley
- Emma Goldman's "Voltairine de Cleyre" A Moving but Flawed Tribute" by Sharon Presley
- Voltairine De Cleyre" by Emma Goldman
- 2. Loving Freedom: Anarchism without Adjectives
- Introduction by Sharon Presley
- Why I Am An Anarchist
- Anarchism
- Events Are the True Schoolmasters
- Anarchism and American Traditions
- A Correction
- 3. Wild Freedom: A Passion for Liberty and Justice
- The Dominant Idea
- Crime and Punishment
- In Defense of Emma Goldman
- 4. Neither Gods nor Superstitions: Freethought and Religion
- The Economic Tendency of Freethought
- Secular Education
- 5. No Authority but Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom
- Those Who Marry Do Ill
- The Case of Woman Versus Orthodoxy
- The Woman Question
- Sex Slavery
- The Political Equality of Women
- 6. Not Another Brick in the Wall: Nonauthoritarian Education
- Introduction by Crispin Sartwell and Sharon Presley
- Modern Educational Reform
- 7. Breaking the Chains: Changing Society through Direct Action
- Introduction by Crispin Sartwell
- Direct Action
- The Eleventh of November, 1887
- Our Present Attitude
- McKinley's Assassination: From the Anarchist Standpoint
- 8. The Political Is the Personal: Anarchist Esthetics
- Literature the Mirror of Man
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791485064
- 0791485064
- 9781423748601
- 1423748603
- OCLC:
- 461441665
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