Anarchy and the Sex Question
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~1,680 words · 8 passages
Cite this work
- APAEmma Goldman. (n.d.). Anarchy and the Sex Question. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/emma-goldman/anarchy-and-the-sex-question
- MLAEmma Goldman. Anarchy and the Sex Question. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/emma-goldman/anarchy-and-the-sex-question.
- ChicagoEmma Goldman. Anarchy and the Sex Question. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/emma-goldman/anarchy-and-the-sex-question.
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What it is about
An early article (1896) on marriage, love and women's economic dependence.
Context and history
The first statement of what Marriage and Love would develop fifteen years later: that marriage is first of all an economic institution. It stands as a document of anarchist feminism before it had a name. This is a short article, not a book: its size in the catalogue is no defect of the copy. Much of Goldman's work took this form, in her magazine Mother Earth and in pamphlets.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
To suppress one class and protect another is worse than folly. It is criminal. Do not turn away your heads, you moral man and woman. Do not allow your prejudice to influence you: look at the question from an unbiased standpoint. Instead of exerting your strength uselessly, join hands and assist to abolish the corrupt, diseased system. If married life has not robbed you of honour and self-respect, if you have love for those you call your children, you must, for your own sake as well as theirs, seek emancipation and establish liberty. Then, and not until then, will the evils of matrimony cease. THE END