Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 9
Part One:
REVOLUTION
of the MIND......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
Freethinkers......Page 24
A Normal Life......Page 31
Voluntary Abundance......Page 38
The Question of Methods......Page 52
De Cleyre\'s Position......Page 66
De Cleyre\'s Views on Violence......Page 73
\"A Rocket of Iron\"......Page 80
\"Germinal\"......Page 86
Theory and Practice......Page 90
Sex Slavery and Wage Slavery......Page 117
\"The White Room\"......Page 125
Freeing Words, Freeing Thought......Page 134
Oppositional Metaphors and Dominant Ideas......Page 146
\"Ave et Vale\"......Page 154
Part Two:
Selected Writings of
VOLTAIRINE de CLEYRE......Page 163
Section One.
DE CLEYRE\'S LIFEWORK: Hope , Despair, Solidarity......Page 165
The Burial of My Past Self......Page 173
New and Strange Ideas......Page 175
Civilizing the World......Page 178
To Print the Force of My Will......Page 184
Do You Remember . . . ?......Page 188
Possessed by Barren Doubts......Page 191
Impractical! Hell!......Page 196
Report of the Work of the Chicago
Mexican Defense League......Page 199
Section Two.
FREEDOM, JUSTICE,
ANARCHISM......Page 202
The Hurricane......Page 205
A Rocket of Iron......Page 207
Appeal for Herman Helcher......Page 210
The Chain Gang......Page 211
The Commune Is Risen......Page 215
Section Three:
ON WOMEN, SEXUALITY,
AND THE BODY......Page 220
Selling Their Bodies......Page 229
Sex Slavery......Page 232
The Gates of Freedom......Page 245
The White Room......Page 261
Mary Wollstonecraft......Page 264
If I Had Married Him......Page 266
The Past and Future of the
Ladies\' Liberal League......Page 270
The Case of Woman vs. Orthodoxy......Page 281
The Woman Question......Page 294
The Heart of Angiolillo......Page 296
The Death of Love......Page 305
The Hopelessly Fallen......Page 309
They Who Marry Do Ill......Page 312
INTRODUCTION......Page 324
CHAPTER 1......Page 325
CHAPTER 2......Page 327
CHAPTER 3......Page 328
CHAPTER 4......Page 329
WORKS
BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE......Page 332
OTHER WORKS......Page 336
SELECTED INDEX OF NAMES......Page 342