Synopsis
A collection of essays, speeches, and poems by an anarchist who defended individual liberty, women's autonomy, and an anarchism beyond fixed labels.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Public domainNo system of authority, whether state, church, or convention, has the right to override the free judgment and self-ownership of the individual.
It fuses individualist anarchism with a fierce feminism, insisting liberty is meaningless if it stops at the threshold of women's lives.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays.
Reading note
Read across the genres collected here; her arguments evolve, and she resisted being pinned to any single anarchist school.
Best paired with
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays