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Emily Dickinson on sex, desire, and &quote;the chapter . . . in the night.&quote; Emma Goldman against the tyranny of marriage. Ida B. Wells against lynching. Anna Julia Cooper on Black American womanhood. Frances Willard on riding a bicycle. Perhaps the first of its kind, Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention paid to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Asian American women.In Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory, selections span from early works like Sarah Mapps Douglass's anti-slavery appeal &quote;A Mother's Love&quote; (1832) and Maria W. Stewart's &quote;Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall&quote; (1833), to Zitkala-Sa's memories in &quote;The Land of Red Apples&quote; (1921) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's moving final essay &quote;The Right to Die&quote; (1935). In between, readers will discover a whole host of vibrant and challenging lesser-known texts that are rarely collected today. Some, indeed, have been out of print for more than a century.Unique among anthologies of American literature, Radicals undoes such silences by collecting the underrepresented, the uncategorizable, the unbowed-powerful writings by American women of genius and audacity who looked toward, and wrote toward, what Charlotte Perkins Gilman called &quote;a lifted world.&quote;