New Book | Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchisme, féminismes et amours libres
Alice Béja | Éditions de l'Atelier, July 3, 2025. [in French]
From the Publisher:
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was a major figure in the anarchist movement. Alongside Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons, she is one of the few women widely recognized within the movement. Defiant and independent-minded, she articulated ideas that still resonate today—especially in a context of growing industrialization, escalating social violence, rising identity-based tensions, and repression of dissent. Her reflections raised pressing questions such as:
What role does violence play in social movements?
Should violence be used in response to state violence?
How can we envision a stateless society built on individual freedom and capable of ensuring a dignified and fulfilling life for all?
How can women challenge gender norms and reject the social and moral models imposed upon them?
Alice Béja is an author and U.S. specialist, lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, and researcher at Ceraps-CNRS. She has explored the relationship between literature and politics, the American anarchist movement through the figure of Emma Goldman, and social movements related to food in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. A former editor-in-chief of the journal Esprit, she produced the documentary Emma Goldman: Living the Revolution (2018) and is a member of the editorial board of La Déferlante.
Éditions de l’Atelier, July 2025.
ISBN: 9782708247024