Feminist interpretations of Emma Goldman
Within 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.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, ©2007
Biography
xvi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271029757, 9780271029764, 0271029757, 0271029765
228781890
ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductory EssaysDigging for Gold(man): What We FoundPenny A. Weiss and Loretta Kensinger with Berenice A. CarrollAnarchy in Interpretation: The Life of Emma GoldmanJason WehlingPart One: Specific Themes and Central Concerns1. Let Icons be Bygones! Emma Goldman: The Grand ExpositorCandace Falk2. A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the FeminineLori Jo Marso3. Religion, Faith and Politics: Reading Goldman Through NietzscheKathy E. Ferguson4. The “Individual” in Goldman’s Anarchist TheoryJanet E. Day5. Emma Goldman and the Theory of RevolutionBerenice A. Carroll6. Who Were Emma Goldman’s “Children”? Anarchist Feminism and ChildhoodPenny A. WeissPart Two: Historical Roots and Current Connections7. Manufacturing Consensus: Goldman, Kropotkin, and the Order of an Anarchist CanonJonathan McKenzie and Craig Stalbaum8. Emma Goldman and the Spirit of Artful Living: Philosophy and Politics in the Classical American PeriodLynne M. Adrian9. Emma Goldman on Mary WollstonecraftAlice Wexler10. Dancing in the Revolution: Emma Goldman’s FeminismAlix Kates Shulman11. Speaking with Red Emma: The Feminist Theory of Emma GoldmanLoretta KensingerPart Three: Political Change: Theory and Practice12. Anarchist Alternatives to CompetitionMartha A. Ackelsberg and Kathryn Pyne Addelson13. In Defense of Emma GoldmanVoltairine de Cleyre14. Emma Goldman: The Case for Anarcho-FeminismMarsha Hewitt15. The Emma Goldman Clinic Mission StatementGrave MarkerBibliographyContributorsIndex