ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2011. 362 p. Cloth 0-7425-2300-4 / 978-0-7425-2300-5

Emma Goldman has often been read for her colorful life story, her lively if troubled
sex life, and her wide-ranging political activism. Few have taken her seriously as a
political thinker, even though in her lifetime she was a vigorous public intellectual
within a global network of progressive politics. Engaging Goldman as a political
thinker allows us to rethink the common dualism between theory and practice, scrutinize stereotypes of anarchism by placing Goldman within a fuller historical con-
text, recognize the remarkable contributions of anarchism in creating public life,
and open up contemporary politics to the possibilities of transformative feminism.