Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre, an American anarchist feminist activist and a prolific writer opposing the State, state-sanctioned marriages, and the domination of the Church in women's lives. She is considered to be one of the key figures of American anarchism. The book includes most of her celebrated works, such as an essay “Direct Action”, written in 1912, or famous 1895 “Sex Slavery”, and "Anarchism and American Traditions”, where the author calls not by any means to support the army. The volume also
...contains poems, sketches and stories of Voltairine de Cleyre. The introduction says: Voltairine de Cleyre belongs to this gallant array of rebels who swore allegiance to the cause of universal liberty, thus forfeiting the respect of all “honorable citizens," and bringing upon their heads the persecution of the ruling class. In the real history of the struggle for human emancipation, her name will be found among the foremost of her time. Born shortly after the close of the Civil War, she witnessed during her life the most momentous transformation of the nation; she saw the change from an agricultural community into an industrial empire…
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