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Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (American Civilization)

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I read this book many years ago (before the Internet). As a student of and writer on American women resisters in the 19th century, I found this book invaluable. Anarchists are often blanked out from history, period, but the anarchist women even more so. I have read many books on American women's history and virtually the only ones that ever mention any American anarchist women besides Emma Goldman have been the books on the sex radicals (many anarchist women were involved in that movement). But in fact American anarchist women were active both in directly anarchist activities and in many other related pro-freedom movements, including freethought, free love (sex radicals) and feminist causes. The anarchist women, especially Voltairine de Cleyre, were far ahead of their time and more radical on the issues of feminism than the vast majority of more mainstream feminists of the time. Marsh's excellent and scholarly book saves them from undeserved obscurity. if you want to be well-informed about the history of American radical thought, this book is a necessity.