anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage, and the state as well as the domination of
over sexuality and women's lives which she saw as all interconnected. She is often characterized as a major early anarcho-
because of her views. One of the few women of stature in the anarchist movement, she was acclaimed by
as the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.
without the use of aggression or coercion above all else. She eventually became a strong proponent of
anarchism without adjectives, according to historian George Richard Esenwein, a doctrine without any qualifying labels such as
communist, collectivist, mutualist, or individualist. For others, it was simply understood as an attitude that tolerated the coexistence of
different anarchist schools.