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A provocative collection of essays by one of the foremost thinkers of second-wave feminismIn a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work runs a staunch advocacy of equal rights and social justice. Beginning with her provocative essay "A Marriage Agreement," written in 1969, and continuing through to the heartrending "Caring for an Ill Spouse, and Other Caregivers," written in 2011, this collection provides a window into the social movements t

A comprehensive collection of writings and lectures by one of twentieth-century America's most important political activists, with two essays by editor Alix Kates Shulman, a leader of feminism's second waveEmma Goldman's fiery speeches and essays made her a household name in the early 1900s. Collected here are the most significant of her writings, supplemented with an essay on Goldman's feminist politics and a short biography, both by bestselling author Alix Kates Shulman. Including both published and previously unpublished works, Red Emma Speaks is an important historical volume and a fascina

The story of Emma Goldman, written by a leader of America's second wave of feminismWriter, anarchist, revolutionary, feminist-Emma Goldman was all these things and more. She was a fiery advocate, taking bold stands on a wide range of issues including women's rights, homosexuality, capitalism, and the military draft. Her tumultuous childhood in Tsarist Russia fostered her rebelliousness and emboldened her opposition to violent authority. Upon arriving in New York in 1885, Goldman found a home in the anarchist movement in the United States. She traveled the country to deliver lectures on anarchi