![]() ![]() ![]() Goldman presents marriage as on the same continuum as prostitution, arguing that in both cases women are sold and circulated, and is critical of "moralists" who condemn prostitution, but not marriage for monetary considerations. Goldman criticizes the role which Christian churches have played in historically encouraging and maintaining prostitution. ![]() In the essay she argues that the major cause of white slavery, that has been ignored by these reformers, is capitalist exploitation. The essay was written in response to the actions of contemporary social reformers campaigning against white slavery, whose legislative campaign Goldman claimed would only serve to create "fat political jobs" for "parasites." The essay is one of more than 20 articles that Goldman wrote during 1906 to 1940. Mother Earth was a monthly anarchist magazine founded by Goldman, Max Baginski, and others in 1906. It has been published in various ways, including within Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), published by Mother Earth, and as the named, leading essay of a collection of Emma Goldman essays: The Traffic in Women, and Other Essays on Feminism (1970, Times Change Press, 1971 paperback). " The Traffic in Women" is an essay written by anarchist writer Emma Goldman in 1910. ![]()
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