A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking argument for the intellectual, moral, and social equality of women. Wollstonecraft challenges the prevailing belief that women were naturally inferior to men, arguing instead that women appeared less capable largely because society denied them meaningful education and encouraged them to cultivate…
Naked Warriors by Herbert Read
Naked Warriors by Herbert Read is a slim 1919 collection of war poetry drawn directly from the author’s experiences as a soldier in World War I. The poems present vivid, often stark snapshots of trench warfare—capturing fear, violence, exhaustion, and moments of uneasy humanity. Rather than glorifying war, Read strips it down to its psychological…
Miss Todd’s Vampire: A Comedy in One Act by Sally Shute
NOTE: This play is not about a bloodsucking vampire, rather a “femme fatale” or a woman who distracts men from their true interests.Miss Todd’s Vampire is a one-act comedy play published around 1920 (most notably by Walter H. Baker & Co.). The story centers on a young woman named Sue, who is on the verge…
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking argument for the intellectual, moral, and social equality of women. Wollstonecraft challenges the prevailing belief that…
Keep readingSelected Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre Volume 3 – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most versatile and radical thinkers in American history. Often overshadowed by her contemporary Emma Goldman, de Cleyre’s essays are noted for their poetic…
Keep readingA Sex Revolution By Lois Waisbrooker-Nichols – Rostie Publishing
A Sex Revolution is a feminist utopian novel that imagines how society might change if women, guided by the values of motherhood, cooperation, and social responsibility, assumed leadership over public…
Keep readingPoetry From The Liberator Vol 1, No 2, April 1918
The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911 to 1914. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct…
Keep readingSelected Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre Volume 2 – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most versatile and radical thinkers in American history. Often overshadowed by her contemporary Emma Goldman, de Cleyre’s essays are noted for their poetic…
Keep readingSelected Sketches and Stories of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre – Rostie Publishing
Selected Sketches and Stories is a collection that showcases the literary and narrative side of Voltairine de Cleyre, a prominent American anarchist, feminist, and orator of the late 19th…
Keep readingSelected Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre Volume 1 by Voltairine De Cleyre – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most versatile and radical thinkers in American history. Often overshadowed by her contemporary Emma Goldman, de Cleyre’s essays are noted for their poetic…
Keep readingThe Eternal Feminine by Carolyn Wells – Rostie Publishing
The Eternal Feminine is a light-hearted, satirical collection of short stories in which Carolyn Wells playfully examines the social expectations placed on women at the turn of the 20th century.…
Keep readingPoems of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine de Cleyre – Rostie Publishing
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)Born April 12, 1866, Leslie, Michigan, USADied June 20, 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA (due to kidney failure)Anarchist essayist, orator, poet, and leading figure in American individualist and…
Keep readingThoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft – Rostie Publishing
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters is Mary Wollstonecraft’s early instructional treatise offering practical advice on how young women should be raised. Written before her major political works, the book…
Keep readingRecalcitrance Volume 9: Little Screw by Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev – Recalcitrance Publishing
Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (Николай Яковлевич Агнивцев, 1888–1932) was a Russian poet, playwright, and satirist known for his wit, elegance, and nostalgic evocations of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Born in Moscow, he…
Keep readingAmalgamation by Jay Fox – Rostie Publishing
“Amalgamation” argues that the principal weakness of the American labor movement is its fragmentation by craft (trade) unions, which limits the workers’ collective power. Fox contends that the path forward…
Keep readingWorld Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell – Rostie Publishing
World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism is a collection of essays written by journalist and literary critic Floyd Dell, exploring early 20th-century feminist thought and the cultural shifts it inspired.…
Keep readingDeportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman – Rostie Publishing
The year is 1919, and the United States has traded the Great War for the escalating domestic conflict of the First Red Scare. In this atmosphere of political hysteria, the…
Keep readingThe Anarchist Revolution by George Barrett – Rostie Publishing
A British Anarchist and Propagandist, George Barrett (born George Powell Ballard, 1888–1917) was a brilliant and tragically short-lived English anarchist writer, speaker, and organizer of the 1910s.Though he trained as…
Keep readingDiary of a Sitdowner by Francis L O’Rourke – Rostie Publishing
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 was a landmark labor protest that fundamentally changed industrial relations in the United States.The strike was organized by the fledgling United Auto Workers (UAW)…
Keep readingWHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS by Max Nettlau – Rostie Publishing
Originally a pamphlet signed by Max Nettlau, published in 1894 by the Commonweal Anarchist Group in London. It is a declaration of beliefs: setting out why anarchists hold the views…
Keep readingPoetry from The Masses 1911 – Rostie Publishing
With selections from TM Becker, Herbert Everett, Isaac Goldberg, Wilby Heard, Varl Holiday, Emanuel Julius, James C McNally, Reginald Wright Kauffman, and Horace Traubel.The Masses was a socialist magazine published…
Keep readingPoetry from The Liberator Vol 1, No 1, March 1918 – Rostie Publishing
The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911-19147. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct conscription during…
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