August 15, 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, “C. L. James” (1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is nearly eighteen years ago, back in the fall of 1893, that for the brief space of a half an hour I sat in the company of C. L. James. It happened so: it […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Discussion at Meetings” (1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

I HAVE read, in the last issue of Mother Earth, Bolton Hall’s opinion on the mixed blessing of discussion after meetings with interest, and—disagreement; mixed also. I agree that a meeting of fifty with a […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Mexican Revolt” (1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE MEXICAN REVOLT BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. AT last we see a genuine awakening of a people, not to political demands alone, but to economic ones,—fundamentally economic ones. And in the brief period of a […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Mexican Revolution” (1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION A lecture delivered in Chicago October 29, 1911. By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. THAT a nation of people considering themselves enlightened, informed, alert to the interests of the hour, should be so generally […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Note” (October 1910)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTE. So far the following dates have been engaged for lectures: New York October 7—8 Albany October 9 Rochester October 12 Buffalo October 13—16 Cleveland October 20—23 Toledo October 26 Detroit October 30 Chicago November […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Note” (August 1910)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTE About October 15th I intend starting on a lecture tour which will extend as far as Chicago, or perhaps farther west. Organizations and Comrades wishing to arrange lectures should kindly communicate with me at […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Dominant Idea” (1910)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

On everything that lives, if one looks searchingly, is limned the shadow line of an idea — an idea, dead or living, sometimes stronger when dead, with rigid, unswerving lines that mark the living embodiment […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Study of the General Strike in Philadelphia” (1910)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A “CONDITION” is always more interesting than a “theory.” The general strike of organized labor in Philadelphia has been the most interesting and instructive phenomenon in the economic struggle which any American city has offered […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Strike” (1910)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. EVER since the trolley strike of last June, when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company was forced into the semblance of an agreement with its men, it has made […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Our Police Censorship” (1909)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

OUR POLICE CENSORSHIP Address delivered October 8, 1909, in Philadelphia, at a public meeting of protest against the police suppression of Emma Goldman’s lectures. By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE FELLOW-MEN: I have written my speech; I […]

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