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* Numerous books and pamphlets advocating free love and women's rights (some writing included in ''Women Without Superstition: 'No Gods--No Masters': The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' ed. by Annie Laurie Gaylor | * Numerous books and pamphlets advocating free love and women's rights (some writing included in ''Women Without Superstition: 'No Gods--No Masters': The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' ed. by Annie Laurie Gaylor | ||
* ''[[Alice Vale: A Story for the Times]]'' (1869 novel) [http://books.google.com/books?id=GgweAAAAMAAJ&dq=lois+waisbrooker&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=_5wWjJdOi0&sig=5VEeTMkeyKXrNLYeGs6lRhXXGQs] (a spiritualist reveals people's past lives) | |||
* ''Nothing Like It: or Steps to the Kingdom'' (1875 novel) | * ''Nothing Like It: or Steps to the Kingdom'' (1875 novel) | ||
* ''Perfect Motherhood or Mabel Raymond's Resolve'' (novel; NY: Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1890) | * ''Perfect Motherhood or Mabel Raymond's Resolve'' (novel; NY: Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1890) | ||
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Lois Waisbrooker was a 19th century feminist and anarchist, writer, editor, publisher, and activist. She wrote an anarcha-feminist, pacifist utopian novel, A Sex Revolution in 1893.
Biography
Waisbrooker was an anarcha-feminist, freethinker, and free love advocate, born 1826 as Adeline Eliza Nichols. She was a firm believer not in equality for women, but in women's superiority. She seems to have been married, possibly unhappily, with children. In her later years she was arrested under the Comstock laws for obscenity, but the case (U.S. v. Waisbrooker) was dismissed. In 1901 after President McKinley was assassinated, Waisbrooker was again charged with obscenity as part of an attack on anarchists; this time she was found guilty (federal court, July, 1902). She died in her son's home in Antioch, California, on Oct. 3, 1909, at eighty-four years of age.[1]
Bibliography
- Numerous books and pamphlets advocating free love and women's rights (some writing included in Women Without Superstition: 'No Gods--No Masters': The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ed. by Annie Laurie Gaylor
- Alice Vale: A Story for the Times (1869 novel) [1] (a spiritualist reveals people's past lives)
- Nothing Like It: or Steps to the Kingdom (1875 novel)
- Perfect Motherhood or Mabel Raymond's Resolve (novel; NY: Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1890)
- A Sex Revolution (1893)
References
- ↑ Pam Waisbrooker, "Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker's Way to Peace," introduction to the 1985 edition of A Sex Revolution.
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