Contents
Part One: Revolution of the Mind
Introduction
1. Freeing Thought
2. Fated Fruit
3. Sex Slavery
4. Refashioning the Mind
Part Two: Selected Writings of Voltairine de Cleyre
Section One. De Cleyre’s Lifework: Hope, Despair, Solidarity
The Burial of My Past Self
New and Strange Ideas
Civilizing the World
To Print the Force of My Will
Do You Remember . . . ?
Possessed by Barren Doubts
Impractical! Hell!
Report of the Work of the Chicago Mexican Defense League
Section Two. Freedom, Justice, Anarchism
The Hurricane
A Rocket of Iron
Appeal for Herman Helcher
The Chain Gang
The Commune Is Risen
Section Three. On Women, Sexuality, and the Body
Selling Their Bodies
Sex Slavery
The Gates of Freedom
The White Room
Mary Wollstonecraft
If I Had Married Him
The Past and Future of the Ladies’ Liberal League
The Case of Woman vs. Orthodoxy
The Woman Question
The Heart of Angiolillo
The Death of Love
The Hopelessly Fallen
They Who Marry Do Ill
Notes to Part I
Works Cited
Selected Index of Names