Exquisite Rebel The Essays Of Voltairine De Cleyre Anarchist Feminist Genius Voltairine De Cleyre Sharon Presley Crispin Sartwell by Voltairine De Cleyre & Sharon Presley & Crispin Sartwell 9780791460931, 0791460932 instant download after payment.

Emma Goldman called Voltairine de Cleyre the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced. Yet her writings and speeches on anarchism and feminismas radical, passionate, and popular at the time as Goldmansare virtually unknown today. This important book brings de Cleyres 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 womens 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 todays world of anti-globalization actions, de Cleyres anarchist ideals of local self-rule, individual conscience, and decentralization of power still remain fresh and relevant.
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