6: Emma Goldman

This episode is about:

Emma Goldman – the mother of anarchy. She was a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, sexual freedom, legalization of birth control, immigrant and worker’s rights and freedom of speech.

Fun Fact: Goldman believed that that both public and private life needed to change for a successful revolution thus started advocating for female sexual liberation. This put her at odds with her feminist contemporaries, her ideas were too radical for the feminist movement and Emma did not associate with the suffragettes.

Sources:

– Jewish Women’s Archive. “Emma Goldman – A Dedicated Anarchist – Jacob Kershner.”
– Falk, Candace. “Emma Goldman.” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 27 February 2009. Jewish Women’s Archive.
– Jewish Women’s Archive. “Emma Goldman’s “What I Believe”.
– Waldstreicher, David. “Radicalism, Religion, Jewishness: The Case of Emma Goldman.” American Jewish History 80, no. 1 (1990): 74-92.
– Gurstein, Rochelle. “Emma Goldman and the Tragedy of Modern Love.” Salmagundi, no. 135/136 (2002): 67-89.
– Hemmings, Clare. “Sexual Freedom and the Promise of Revolution: Emma Goldman’s Passion.” Feminist Review, no. 106 (2014): 43-59.
– Hemmings, Clare. “In the Mood for Revolution: Emma Goldman’s Passion.” New Literary History 43, no. 3 (2012): 527-45.
– Kern, Robert W. “Anarchist Principles and Spanish Reality: Emma Goldman as a Participant in the Civil War 1936-39.” Journal of Contemporary History 11, no. 2/3 (1976): 237-59.
– Frankel, Oz. “Whatever Happened to “Red Emma”? Emma Goldman, from Alien Rebel to American Icon.” The Journal of American History 83, no. 3 (1996): 903-42.

1. Emma Goldman, 1911
2. Goldman’s family, 1882. From left to right: Emma, standing; Helena, seated with Morris; Taube; Herman; Abraham.
3. Goldman with friend/lover Alexander Berkman, 1917–1919
4. Goldman, Union Square, 1916. Giving a speech to unemployed workers.
5. Goldman’s Mother Earth magazine
6. Deportation photo, 1919
7. Goldman’s boo on her experiences in Soviet Russia, 1923
8. Goldman’s grave, Illinois’ Forest Home Cemetery. The dates on the stone are incorrect.