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May 14, 2020 · In contrast to the majority of anti-suffragists who approached the issue of women voting from the conservative right, Goldman formulated a case against suffrage from the left on the basis of anarchist and feminist principles.
- Jewish Women's Archive
Emma Goldman was born on June 27, 1869, in the Jewish...
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- Jewish Women's Archive
As a result of her anti-state views, Goldman believed that voting was useless at best and dangerous at worst. Voting, she wrote, provided an illusion of participation while masking the true structures of decision-making.
She was wary of the suffrage movement because she believed that participation in politics was participation in a corrupt system that promoted inequality; women could vote just as unjustly as men. There was no guarantee, she argued, that women voters would fix political corruption.
A born propagandist and organizer, Emma Goldman championed women's equality, free love, workers' rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender, and anarchism.
Goldman dared to advocate ‘Birth Control,’ and defend ‘The Intermediate Sex’ (a phrase used to describe homosexuality), and explain ‘Why and How Small Families are Desirable,’ and in the spirit of the present debate over when life technically begins, address ‘The Child’s Right Not to be Born.’.
The Anarchist Emma Goldman was tried for conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act. The following is an excerpt from her speech to the court, in which she explains her views on patriotism.
Jan 11, 2016 · On February 11, 1916, Russian-born activist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City. She was about to give a lecture on family planning. Such talk was considered illegal under the 1873 Comstock Act, which banned “obscene” literature, including information about contraception.
