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8. “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?”
by Steve J. Shone
Abstract: The recently rediscovered Michigan-born poet, essayist, and political philosopher, Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) has been celebrated by modern scholars as both an anarchist and a feminist. In this paper, however, it is argued that detailed scrutiny of her writings perhaps suggests de Cleyre, who spent much of her life in Philadelphia, was consistently an anarchist thinker, but that her ideas are not nearly so compatible with feminism as they have been portrayed.
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[...] Papers, Vol. 2 (2010), Art. #8: “Voltairine de Cleyre: More of an Anarchist than a Feminist?,” by Steve J. [...]
The idea that Voltairine was not a feminist is silly on the face of it. I have written a long essay on her feminism for Social Anarchism (archived at http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SA/en/display/338). The shorter version is in “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre” which I co-edited.
Since I have not read and am not able to find a copy of the article above, I can’t comment on it directly. But I can only assume that this bit of sleight-of-hand is based on a misunderstanding of what feminism means now and what it meant then. I will be happy to comment further if I can ever get a copy of the article.
I have a copy of the article now and will reply to it shortly.