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Book SynopsisWithin the popular consciousness, Emma Goldman has become something of an icon, a symbol for rebellion and women's rights. This book presents essays that resist a simplistic understanding of Goldman and instead attempts to examine her thinking in its proper social, historical, and philosophical context.
Trade Review“This volume is a treasure and a treat! Everyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Emma Goldman will love this collection. Its rich and diverse selections develop the theme of anarchism, its many ramifications in Emma Goldman’s thought, and the relevance of her ideas today. The essays are very accessible for use in teaching—clearly written, well-argued, informative. A truly outstanding collection, from beginning to end.”
—Claudia Card,Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The centrality of Goldman’s work, rather than her personal life, is a refreshing shift, making room to explore new territory in the scholarship of this almost mythical figure.”
—Colleen Martell Feminist Teacher
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introductory Essays
Digging for Gold(man): What We Found
Penny A. Weiss and Loretta Kensinger with Berenice A. Carroll
Anarchy in Interpretation: The Life of Emma Goldman
Jason Wehling
Part One: Specific Themes and Central Concerns
1. Let Icons be Bygones! Emma Goldman: The Grand Expositor
Candace Falk
2. A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine
Lori Jo Marso
3. Religion, Faith and Politics: Reading Goldman Through Nietzsche
Kathy E. Ferguson
4. The “Individual” in Goldman’s Anarchist Theory
Janet E. Day
5. Emma Goldman and the Theory of Revolution
Berenice A. Carroll
6. Who Were Emma Goldman’s “Children”? Anarchist Feminism and Childhood
Penny A. Weiss
Part Two: Historical Roots and Current Connections
7. Manufacturing Consensus: Goldman, Kropotkin, and the Order of an Anarchist Canon
Jonathan McKenzie and Craig Stalbaum
8. Emma Goldman and the Spirit of Artful Living: Philosophy and Politics in the Classical American Period
Lynne M. Adrian
9. Emma Goldman on Mary Wollstonecraft
Alice Wexler
10. Dancing in the Revolution: Emma Goldman’s Feminism
Alix Kates Shulman
11. Speaking with Red Emma: The Feminist Theory of Emma Goldman
Loretta Kensinger
Part Three: Political Change: Theory and Practice
12. Anarchist Alternatives to Competition
Martha A. Ackelsberg and Kathryn Pyne Addelson
13. In Defense of Emma Goldman
Voltairine de Cleyre
14. Emma Goldman: The Case for Anarcho-Feminism
Marsha Hewitt
15. The Emma Goldman Clinic Mission Statement
Grave Marker
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
