A little Red Emma this winter? Join us on December 10 for the final meeting of the semester to discuss the work of a figure who continues to rile the indignation of bourgeois society. (Witness the recent decision to cut funding to the Emma Goldman Papers project at UC Berkeley.) Goldman’s radicalism targets virtually every political and social institution, advocating for nothing less that total revolution of self and society. Sex and marriage, education, women’s rights, patriotism, religion… it all falls under Goldman’s relentless and withering critique.
As always, feel free to read as much or as little as you like. Links included to primary readings and (some) of the secondary sources.
Primary Readings:
- Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (New York: Dover, 1969).
- Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, “Anarchism on Trial” (1917).
- Emma Goldman, “Meeting With Trotsky” in No Gods, No Masters, ed. David Guerín (New York: AK Press, 2005), 544.
- Emma Goldman, “Memories of Kronstadt” in No Gods, No Masters, ed. David Guerín (New York: AK Press, 2005), 545-560.
Additional Material:
- Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923).
- Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924).
- Emma Goldman, Living My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931).
- Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader, ed. Alix Kates Schulman (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1998).
- Emma Goldman, Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution (New York: AK Press, 2006).
- Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1 – Made for America, 1890–1901, ed. Candace Falk (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
- Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2 – Making Speech Free, 1902–1909, ed. Candace Falk (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
- Emma Goldman, A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 3 – Light and Shadows, 1910–1916, ed. Candace Falk (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).
Selected Biographies & Secondary Analysis:
- Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich, Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belknap, 2012).
- John C. Chalberg, Emma Goldman: American Individualist (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008).
- Richard Drinnon, Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).
- Candace Falk, Love, Anarchy and Emma Goldman (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984).
- Kathy Ferguson, Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011).
- Peter Glassgold, Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2001).
- Vivian Gornick, Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
- Penny A. Weiss and Loretta Kensinger, eds. Feminist interpretations of Emma Goldman (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
- Alice Wexler, Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).
- Howard Zinn, Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002).
Films
PBS: An Exceptionally Dangerous Woman
Paramount News: Emma Goldman is Back!
December 10, 2014 – 7 PM
CUNY Graduate Center
Department of Political Science
365 5th Ave. Room 5200.07
New York, NY 10016
CUNY Graduate Center Anarchist Reading Group 