December 27, 2024

The Sex Question

In the writings of the 19th and early 20th century, the questions we associate with feminism were addressed under a variety of labels, one of the most economical of which was “the sex question,” which referred, in practice, to a wide range of question concerning sex, gender, sexuality, etc. The texts collected here cover a wide range of “women’s issues.” The current collection includes material previously contained in the following archives: La Frondeuse (Black and Red Feminist History), Anarchy and the Sex Question and A Beautiful Nihilist.

Voltairine de Cleyre, “In a Marble Tomb” (1888)

August 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A bequest to the poor children of Philadelphia. That, they tell me, is the royal gift of Stephen Girard; and, by the way, friends, did it ever occur to you that while God is occupying […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Quaker City” (1888)

August 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

It was nearing the close of that May-time which is the morning of summer, when one fair, bright day I was borne away to the southward, through long, shining levels of grassy sea, shot over […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Pennsylvania Conventions and Ohio Workers” (1888)

August 7, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pennsylvania Conventions and Ohio Workers After a long, tiresome jolt over that paragon of bad roads, the L. S. & M. S., your correspondent arrived at Girard station on the forenoon of the 24th of […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Secular Education” (1887)

August 7, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

There are four instruments which, wielded by dominant minds, bend and mold the sentiments of the masses to meet the form and spirit of the times: The force of early influence, the school, the platform, […]

V. de C., “A Poetic Swing Around the Circle” (1888)

August 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Poetic Swing Around the Circle Now, all he truth seekers, attend my tale. I am not writing “no such word as dale” (Which, Truth Seeker observes, is common sense Beyond the average poem’s just […]

Sadakichi Hartmann, “Voltairine de Cleyre” (1915)

August 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE By Sadakichi Hartmann THE first and only time I heard Voltairine de Cleyre lecture was at Walker’s N. Y. Liberal Club, way back in 1894. The topic was “Mary Wollstonecraft, the Apostle […]

Leonard D. Abbott, “Voltairine de Cleyre’s Posthumous Book” (1914)

August 5, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE’S POSTHUMOUS BOOK By Leonard D. Abbott. THERE is a famous painting which shows the Statue of Liberty looming up through the mists of New York Harbor. At the base of the statue […]

Lilian Hiller Udell, “An American Anarchist” (1914)

August 3, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

An American Anarchist Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre. [Mother Earth Publishing Association, New York.] Into every generation are born certain personalities that have the gift of attracting vast multitudes within their orbit, dominating them, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Cremation” (1890)

August 1, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. CREMATION. Mr. Editor:—An article in the Truth Seeker from the pen of A. B. Bradford upon the subject of cremation suggested to me the propriety of describing a visit to the […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Dyer D. Lum”

July 31, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Dyer D. Lum February 15, 1839–April 6, 1893 One of the silent martyrs whose graves are trodden to the level by their fellows’ feet, almost before it is seen that they have fallen, completed his […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente