Women of Liberty

Steve J. Shone, Ph.D. (1992), University of California-Riverside, has taught at a number of colleges, including Winona State University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist (Lexington Books, 2010) and American Anarchism (Brill, 2013; paperback edition Haymarket Books, 2014).

• IllustrationsIntroduction1 Mercy Otis Warren, the So-Called “Republican” Patriot1 The Legacy of Mercy’s Brother 2 Jemmy’s Sister: Never a Servile Servian 3 Subjugated People4 Defining “Republican”5 Mercy Otis Warren as a “Republican”2 Louise Michel: Neither a Red Nor a Virgin?1 Michel the Heroine of France2 Michel the Anarchist3 The Originality and Political Philosophy of Victoria C. Woodhull1 The Originality of Victoria C. Woodhull2 Victoria C. Woodhull as a Political Theorist4 The Seductiveness of Tennie C. Claflin and of Her Ideas1 Appearance2 Marriage, Equality, and Social Change3 Poverty5 Lois Waisbrooker: Anarchist Opponent of Marriage1 Waisbrooker’s Feminism2 Waisbrooker’s Anarchism3 Free Love4 Spiritualism5 No to Marriage6 Itō Noe, Japanese Anarchist Follower of Emma Goldman1 Anarchism2 Free Love7 The Radicalism of Elizabeth Cady Stanton1 The Bible as a Weapon Used Against Women2 Marriage and Divorce3 Self-Sovereignty and the Solitude of Self8 Margaret Sanger: The Scientist of Human Salvation1 Sanger’s Anarchist Influences2 Not a Marxist3 Not a Racist4 Birth Control and a New Morality9 Forever an Anarchist: Mollie Steimer1 Russia Attacked: Two Leaflets2 Deported10 Rose Pesotta, the Working Anarchist1 Pesotta as an Anarchist Theorist2 Pesotta as an Anarchist Union ActivistConclusion: Liberty LostBibliographyIndex