July 11, 2025

The Sex Question

In the writings of the 19th and early 20th century, the questions we associate with feminism were addressed under a variety of labels, one of the most economical of which was “the sex question,” which referred, in practice, to a wide range of question concerning sex, gender, sexuality, etc. The texts collected here cover a wide range of “women’s issues.” The current collection includes material previously contained in the following archives: La Frondeuse (Black and Red Feminist History), Anarchy and the Sex Question and A Beautiful Nihilist.

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Relation of Sex in Humanity” (1894)

April 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] RELATION OF SEX IN HUMANITY. By Voltairine de Cleyre. A Lecture Delivered before the Ladies Liberal League, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12, ’93, in Reply to Professor Cope. Before proceeding to state my own position […]

Voltairine de Cleyre in “Lucifer the Light-bearer”

April 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ A FIRST LETTER TO “LUCIFER” ] Phila., March 5, ’90. Dear Sir: I have for some time contemplated sending you a line, to let you know that I, at least, do not belong […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Gates of Freedom” (1891)

April 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] The Gates of Freedom [Address delivered before the Liberal Convention at Topeka, Kan., March 15, `89`.] “They have rights who dare maintain them.” This is my text. And the purpose of my lecture is […]

Dyer D. Lum, “To Hell with Her” (1891)

April 5, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] “To Hell With Her.” I know a woman (in the profane, rather than in the sacred sense of that verb). She was born in far Norseland, and the bloom on her cheeks vied with […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Courting” (1890)

April 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] COURTING Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 15, ’90. A friend and myself undertook that serious affair the other day, and the results being peculiar I want to take the public into my confidence. People usually prefer […]

Charles Keller, “Their Poor Reasons”

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LEURS PAUVRES RAISONS A Madame André Léo. Ce n’est pas sans bonnes raisons Qu’ils trottinent tous vers l’église, Chaque dimanche, comme oisons Que le Bon Pasteur mobilise! * * * […]

Lucien Descaves, “A Friend of Varlin” (Nathalie Le Mel)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nathalie Le Mel [tag feed] A Friend of Varlin Last week there died, at the hospice of Ivry, at 95 years of age, an old revolutionary that I have known well and to whom […]

Welcome to “Anarchy and the Sex Question”

December 17, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROJECT LINKS: Purchase Anarchy and the Sex Question Emma Goldman page Emma Goldman [tag feed] Voltairine de Cleyre page Lizzie M. Holmes page Louise Michel page The Sex Question category feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Jenny P. […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft—The Apostle of Woman’s Freedom” (1893)

August 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT—THE APOSTLE OF WOMAN’S FREEDOM. — AN ADDRESS Delivered at the International Congress of Freethinkers at Chicago. — By Voltairine de Cleyre. — “Quietly does the clear light, shining day […]

Voltairine De Cleyre, “Mary Wollstonecraft” (1894)

August 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the Boston Investigator. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Mr. Editor:—Yourself and readers will be interested to learn that the plan of establishing a “female saint’s day” among freethinkers, by commemorating the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, proposed by […]

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