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Nov 17, 1866 Leslie, Michigan, United States Died on 20 Jun 1912 (aged 45)

American anarchist writer and feminist

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About Voltairine De Cleyre

  • Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed state power, the capitalism she saw as interconnected with it, and marriage, and the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives.
  • She is often characterized as a major early feminist because of her views.Born and raised in small towns in Michigan and schooled in a Sarnia, Ontario Catholic convent, de Cleyre began her activist career in the freethought movement.
  • She was initially drawn to individualist anarchism, but evolved through mutualism to what she called anarchism without adjectives, prioritizing a stateless society without the use of force above all else.
  • She was a contemporary of Emma Goldman, with whom she maintained a relationship of respectful disagreement on many issues.
  • Many of her essays were collected in the Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, published posthumously in 1914 by Goldman's magazine Mother Earth.

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