Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre: Feminist, Anarchist, Genius

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity. 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. At a time when the mainstream women’s movement asked only for the right to vote and rarely challenged the status quo, de Cleyre demanded an end to sex roles, called for economic independence for women, autonomy within and without marriage, and offered a radical critique of the role of the Church and State in oppressing women. In today’s world of anti-globalization actions, de Cleyre’s anarchist ideals of local self-rule, individual conscience, and decentralization of power still remain fresh and relevant.

Literature & Fiction

Voltairine De Cleyre

History & Criticism

State University of New York Press

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

These speeches, delivered between 1895 and 1910 by anarchist agitator Voltairine De Cleyre, eloquently express the mood of US labor militants and confirm the last words of Spies: 'There will come a time when our silence from the grave will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!' With an introduction, notes and bibliography by Paul Avrich

The First Mayday: The Haymarket Speeches 1895-1910 (New Anarchist Library)

History

Americas

Cienfuegos

The Commune: Paris, 1871, is a new collection of critical reflections on the Paris Commune by classic anarchist and libertarian-socialist authors like Louise Michel, William Morris, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin,Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman and Maurice Brinton. These writings seek the illuminate the place of the Commune within the global history of working people's resistance to exploitation and domination, and investigate its implications for the future of revolutionary struggle. Compiled and edited with a foreword by Andrew Zonneveld.

The Commune: Paris, 1871

Peter Kropotkin

Louise Michel

Mikhail Bakunin

Maurice Brinton

Alexander, Berkman

William, Morris

Europe

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