Sabrina Yates
- Nov 4, 2020
- 1 min read

Daughters of Anarchy: Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman

In this episode, we talk about Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two American-based anarchafeminists who stood up to women’s rights and really stuck it to the man in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although they didn’t always see eye to eye, they often supported and praised each other and for a while wrote for the same publication. Emma immigrated to America and always seemed to be at odds with the police. Voltairine led a fairly simple life for someone so radical. Chronic illness, imprisonment, poverty, and even assassination attempts couldn’t hold these women back. Here are our sources for this episode:

Anarcha-Feminism:

https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/26/transcript

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(Marxism_and_anarchism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcha-feminism

https://www.wmmsk.com/media/Library/Фемзины%20на%20иностранных%20языках/English/Anarcha-Feminism.pdf

http://www.anarcha.org/sallydarity/index.php

Voltairine:

An American Anarchist : the Life of Voltairine de Cleyre by Paul Avrich

Blasting the Canon edited by Duane Rousselle, Ruth Kinna, and Süreyyya Evren

Gates of Freedom : Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind by Eugenia DeLamotte

Voltairine de Cleyre: Sexual Slavery and Sexual Pleasure in the Nineteenth Century

Refashioning the Mind: The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Voltairine de Cleyre