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Feminismo y anarquismo II

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En Feminismo y Anarquismo II se recogen escritos autobiográficos sobre la cuestión sexual y la lucha por el control de la natalidad, relatos de la experiencia directa de Emma Goldman en las cárceles femeninas donde fue recluida en varias ocasiones; textos sobre mujeres escritoras y militantes anarquistas, como Mary Wollstonecraft, Voltairine de Cleyre, Louise Michel, y un texto de resumen de su trayectoria vital que, a modo de sosegado balance, escribió casi al final de su vida.

El aliento libertario insertado en su tiempo que recorre estos textos, lejos de celebraciones y mitificaciones, nos muestra la poderosa presencia de su compromiso vital.

254 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2019

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Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.

She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia.

Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.

During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.

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April 23, 2025
se incluyen muchas mas experiencias personales q en el volumen I y eso permite conocer mucho más la figura de Emma Goldman y cómo sus ideas atravesaron todos los aspectos de su vida pf ella lo es todo
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