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Selected Works: Poems

by Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine de Cleyre was an activist, anarchist, feminist, and protagonist of woman's liberation, her works here highlight varying issues related to society's institutional confines mainly to women of her time. The forward also presents a brief history of her life from having to succumb to religious thinking to her liberation to the free thought movement.

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Voltairine de Cleyre  was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage and the state as well as the domination of religion over sexuality a...

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