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'The time is surely right to draw attention to Voltairine de Cleyre, one of the most uncompromisingly revolutionary of all American women writers... [Gates of Freedom] gives a fine selection of de Cleyre's work, while articulating it to contemporary critical and cultural concerns.... The book's organization, its tendency to tackle the most difficult issues head on, and its careful selection of published and unpublished work are all superb.'---Cary Nelson, University of Illinois'The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now.'These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairine de Cleyre, a leading anarchist and radical thinker. A contemporary of Emma Goldman---who called her'the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced'---de Cleyre was a significant force in a major social movement that sought to transform American society and culture at its root. But she belongs to a group of late-nineteenth-century freethinkers, anarchists, and sex-radicals whose writing continues to be excluded from the U.S. literary and historical canon. Gates of Freedom considers de Cleyr

Author

Eugenia C DeLamotte; Voltairine De Cleyre; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472098675

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Literary Fiction