[PDF] Anarchism Science And Sex eBook

Author : Richard Cleminson
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :

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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This study examines the reception of the controversia science of eugenics in Catalan and Valencian anarchist reviews in the early twentieth century, setting anarchist discourse on sexuality, theories of degeneration, inheritance and disease in the context of anarchism's own ideological framework, European sexology and eugenics itself. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the reviews Salud y Fuerza, Generacion Consciente and Estudios, the author suggests that some anarchists' acceptance of eugenic science was predicated upon their enthusiasm for science as 'objective knowledge' and 'scientia' as a form of cultural ascendancy vital to their revolutionary project. Anarchist eugenics, however, as articulated in these reviews, was not stable and shifted focus and scientific rationale over time and as new ideas came to the fore. The author shows how far the social and ideological concerns of anarchists constructed their form of eugenics and how eugenic science in turn helped to construct a form of anarchism which sought to incorporate sexological science into what anarchists believed was a radical sexual project for the age. Contents: Points of Departure - The Rise of Sexology and Eugenics in Spain and Europe - The Anarchist Engagement with Sexuality: early twentieth century neo-Malthusianism and the shift towards eugenics - Anarchism and Eugenics, 1923-1936 - Eugenics, Civil War and Social Revolution - Conclusion: The Limits of Anarchist Eugenics.

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1629632694

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For Emma Goldman, the “High Priestess of Anarchy,” anarchism was “a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions,” but “the most elemental force in human life” was something still more basic and vital: sex. “The Sex Question” emerged for Goldman in multiple contexts, and we find her addressing it in writing on subjects as varied as women’s suffrage, “free love,” birth control, the “New Woman,” homosexuality, marriage, love, and literature. It was at once a political question, an economic question, a question of morality, and a question of social relations. But her analysis of that most elemental force remained fragmentary, scattered across numerous published (and unpublished) works and conditioned by numerous contexts. Anarchy and the Sex Question draws together the most important of those scattered sources, uniting both familiar essays and archival material, in an attempt to recreate the great work on sex that Emma Goldman might have given us. In the process, it sheds light on Goldman’s place in the history of feminism.

Author : Jamie Heckert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 113680837X

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Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power brings the rich traditions of anarchist thought and practice to contemporary questions about the politics of sexuality.

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-12
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ISBN : 9781979631334

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This book is a small collection of some of Emma Goldman's essays, from "Mother Earth" to "What I Believe". Despite the works being more than a century old, they hold a very interesting perspective that, even currently, are regarded as radical. Emma Goldman was an activist who dedicated most of her life to having a new social order, which she believed could only happen under anarchism and the given equal value of person by feminism with societal atheism. She died in 1940, leaving behind a large intellectual legacy, as many anarchist philosophers do.

Author : Richard Cleminson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526124491

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At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a ‘scientific’ doctrine that sought to eliminate ‘dysgenics’ and champion the ‘fit’ as a means of ‘race’ survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?

Author : Richard Cleminson
Publisher : Sharply Library
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1995-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781873605172

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A look at the Spanish Anarchists' view of homosexuality in the 20s and 30s, through the debates in the journal 'Esutios.'