Red Emma Speaks Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Goldman, Emma (edited by Shulman, Alix Kates) Publisher: Vintage Year Published: 1972 Pages: 415pp ISBN: 0-394-71172-6 Resource Type: Book
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
Abstract: Emma Goldman, the early twentieth-century anarchist and feminist, was born into a Jewish family in czarist Russia and fled to the United States when she was seventeen. She became interested in anarchism as a solution to the economic and sexual exploitation she saw around her; became an activist and was named the "Anarchist Queen."
Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches by Emma Goldman is a collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of the theories and beliefs of Emma Goldman on a number of topics including education, marriage, prisons, and women's liberation. The book is divided into four parts, each of which has an individual preface along with a longer, general introduction at the beginning by Alix Shulman. Part one, "Organization of Society", contains five essays in which Goldman explains her vision of the political and economic organization of society under anarchism while part two, "Social Institutions," examines the extent to which society's major social institutions manipulate and control us. Part three, "Violence," contains seven essays on individual and institutional violence and part four, "Two Revolutions and a Summary," contains the Afterward to "My Disillusionment in Russia" and three other pieces. The book ends with the essay "Was My Life Worth Living?"
[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]
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