Lois Waisbrooker
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 a free love anarchist feminist, 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, in 1909, at eight-four years of age.[1]
Bibliography
- Numerous books and pamphlets advocating free love and women's rights.
- Nothing Like It: or Steps to the Kingdom (1875 novel)
References
- ↑ Pam Waisbrooker, "Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker's Way to Peace," introduction to the 1985 edition of A Sex Revolution.