November 24, 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, “On Liberty” (1909)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

ON LIBERTY By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE.[note]Speech delivered by Voltairine de Cleyre at the Cooper Union Protest Meeting, June 30, 1909.[/note] MR. Crosby has said he is here in the interest of “good government”; so am […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “On Liberty” (1909)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Anarchism and American Traditions” (1908-09)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Voltairine de Cleyre [main page] American traditions, begotten of religious rebellion, small self-sustaining communities, isolated conditions, and hard pioneer life, grew during the colonization period of one hundred and seventy years from the […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Open Your Eyes!” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

OPEN YOUR EYES! WHEN, at the beginning of winter, the present industrial depression, following upon the great ﬁnancial paroxysm of November, threw millions of people face to face with the problem of hunger and exposure, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Our Present Attitude” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE present organization of society, working logically and inexorably, has brought about a situation which both Socialists and Anarchists have all along foreseen and foretold. It was no more to be avoided than the leap […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Chain Gang” (1907)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is far, far down in the southland, and I am back again, thanks be, in the land of wind and snow, where life lives. But that was in the days when I was a […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “At the End of the Alley” (1907/1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

IT is a long narrow pocket opening on a little street which runs like a tortuous seam up and down the city, over there. It was at the end of the summer; and in summer, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “To Strive and Fail” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

There was a lonely wind crying around the house, and wailing away through the twilight, like a child that has been refused and gone off crying. Every now and then the trees shivered with it, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Case of the Imprisoned Italians in Philadelphia” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

ALL readers of Mother Earth are familiar with the story of last February’s “riot,” and the subsequent arrest, trial, and discharge of H. Weinberg and myself. What they are not so familiar with is the […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Farce” (1908)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

After the lapse of nearly four months from “the riot” of last February, the case of the “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Hyman Weinberg and Voltairine de Cleyre” was called for trial on the 17th of […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

The Sex Question

Voltairine de Cleyre, “On Liberty” (1909)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “On Liberty” (1909)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Anarchism and American Traditions” (1908-09)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Open Your Eyes!” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Our Present Attitude” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Chain Gang” (1907)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “At the End of the Alley” (1907/1911)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “To Strive and Fail” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Case of the Imprisoned Italians in Philadelphia” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Farce” (1908)