Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a Lithuanian-born American anarchist, lecturer, writer, editor, feminist, labour activist, and one of the most controversial public radicals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After immigrating to the United States as a young woman, Goldman became a major figure in anarchist and labour politics, speaking across the country on government power, capitalism, prisons, militarism, free speech, women's rights, birth control, sexuality, marriage, education, and the right of individuals to live without coercive authority. Her public life brought admiration, surveillance, prosecution, imprisonment, and eventual deportation, but it also made her one of the most recognisable radical intellectuals of her era.Goldman's importance rests on the range and force of her critique. She was not merely an advocate of anarchism as a political system; she argued for a broader liberation of human life from institutions that trained people to obey rather than think, submit rather than create, and conform rather than live freely. Anarchism and Other Essays shows that range clearly, moving from political theory to prisons, patriotism, women's emancipation, sexuality, violence, and the moral habits of modern society. Her work remains central for readers of anarchist thought, feminist political history, free speech movements, labour radicalism, American reform history, and the literature of dissent.