Louise Michel: Rebel Lives

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Louise Michel was the incendiary French leader of the 1871 Paris Commune. An anarchist and an irrepressible rebel, she spent much of her life on the run from police, in jail, or in danger of being locked away in mental asylums, as was the fate of so many feisty or defiant women. Known as "The Red Virgin," Louise was a great character from one of the greatest popular rebellions in history.

Here is Michel's own story, along with commentaries about her by Emma Goldman, Bertolt Brecht, Sheila Rowbotham, Howard Zinn, and her contemporaries Victor Hugo and Karl Marx. This is the third woman in the "Rebel Lives" series.

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Work and Madness.......2006-10-04

As the treatment of mental health disorders continues to expand outwards, beyond the domain of psychiatric institutions, the nature and implications of intensified psychiatric intervention is a cause for concern for all of us.

A social worker, teacher, and community activist, Diana Ralph takes on contemporary community mental health systems. In a meticulously researched and highly readable work, the growth and change in the definition and treatment of mental health disorders is subjected to a concerned and scholarly scrutiny.

Ralph finds available theories, from the liberal to the Marxist to the radical antipsychiatry approaches, inadequate in accounting for these changes. Instead, she locates the ideological origins of community psychiatry within the tradition of industrial psychology, and is able to show how its operation is linked to the needs of contemporary industrial management in their efforts to diffuse dissatisfaction and alienation in the workplace.
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A unique resource. .......2005-01-03

Kliatt, November 2004

MACLELLAN, Nic (ed): Louise Michel (Rebel Lives) Ocean Books.

Louise Michel. a relatively unknown figure outside of her native France, was an activist, an anarchist, and a fighter against racism who is known principally for her role in the short-lived French Commune in the spring of 1871.

A local rebellion, the Paris Commune was a reaction against the provisional government set up by the French after the defeat of Napoleon III by the Prussian armies in the Franco-Prussian War. Michel, a schoolteacher who had read widely in political theory, was fully embroiled in this brief moment of revolutionary ferment, organizing meetings, writing tracts, speaking, and even firing her gun as a fighter in the ranks.

Deported to New Caledonia at the fall of the Commune. she continued to write; and alone among her fellow deportees, championed the native Kanaks, a local tribe that attempted to rebel against French colonial rule. Back in France, she continued to live as she believed, travelling and speaking for the radical and anarchist causes she promoted.

What makes the Rebel Lives series valuable is its presentation of primary source material once the historical background has been carefully laid out in an introduction. Not only are excerpts from Michel's autobiography and letters included, but also brief pieces taken from the works of Engels and Marx writing on the Commune as well as short citations from many others, including Lenin, Emma Goldman (who calls Michel "a complete woman"), and Howard Zinn. Selected reading lists contain books and Web sites in both French and English. A unique resource.

Patricia Moore. Brookline, MA

Her story is presented with her sharp-eyed criticism.......2004-10-30

Compiled and edited by Nic Maclellan, Louise Michel: Rebel Lives is the dramatic biography of Louise Michel, the fiery leader of the 1871 Paris Commune, a short-lived workers' government created when the city population rose up to exert its will. Also known as "The Red Virgin", Louise Michel was a rebel who spent much of her life on the run, in exile, in jail, or in danger of being locked in a mental asylum. "Louise Michel" tells the story of her life by directly collecting and editing her own words from her memoirs and the insights of her contemporaries. Her story is presented with her sharp-eyed criticism of a society and an era where the only lucrative trade for a woman was prostitution, and tributes to her life and efforts from such prominent figures as Emma Goldman, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, and much more.

A Great Heart That Beat for Freedom.......2004-09-30

"Since it seems that any heart which beats for freedom has the right only to a small lump of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never stop crying for vengeance, and I shall avenge my brothers by denouncing the[ir] murderers" (p.101).

So said Louise Michel before the court passed sentence on her for participating in the rebellion that became the Paris Commune. The court did not execute her. Instead, it sent her into exile at the prison colony in New Caledonia 20,000 miles from Paris. Even there Michel advocated for the indigenous people of the island (the Kanaks) in their struggle against the French occupiers.

Michel was dubbed the "Red Virgin": "red" because she was an anarchist and "virgin" because her sexual orientation was unclear (as if this mattered) and because she was unattractive. I don't see it. She had a great and beautiful spirit, and I have fallen in love with her.

Ocean Press is to be commended for providing a good introduction to the person of Louise Michel and the times that stirred her and she helped to shape. Through the writings of such notables as Bakunin, Kropotkin, Marx, Engles, Lenin, Emma Goldman, Howard Zinn, the editor's introduction (Nic Maclellan) and Michels herself, we learn about her mixed proletarian and bourgeoisie background, her undying devotion to her mother, her days as a school teacher, her militancy and leadership role during the Paris Commune, her exile in New Caledonia, her return to Paris and her prescient feminism. All in a mere 115 pages. It is quite a feat.

Louise Michel (Spanish Edition) (Vidas Rebeldes / Rebel Lives)

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Louise Michel was the incendiary leader of the Paris Commune in 1871, when the city's population rose up to establish a short-lived workers' government. Feminist, anarchist, and irrepressible rebel, "The Red Virgin" spent much of her life on the run, in exile, or in jail. Features commentaries by Emma Goldman, Bertolt Brecht, Sheila Rowbotham, Howard Zinn, Victor Hugo, and Karl Marx.

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This book preserves a way of life already lost.......2005-10-23

This is a wonderful account of everyday life in the mountains of Western North Carolina during the 1940's and 1950's--my own early years. The details are so clear that you can imagine the setting even if you've never been there nor seen the implements being described. There are enough amusing anecdotes to keep the book from being just a history lesson. I was fascinated by every chapter, and could identify with a number of things even though I grew up far away from this setting.

Sugar in the Gourd: An Appalachian Reminiscence

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Sugar in the Gourd: An Appalachian Reminiscence
Benjamin M. Garrison
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Nature's efficient pharmacy: herbs that help maintain normal blood sugar.(Herb Watch): An article from: Vibrant Life

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Winston J. Craig
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The Ex-Candidate
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No candidate for sainthood: An anecdotal autobiography

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The diaries of Georges Vanier.(the late Governor-General of Canada, canonization candidate; book The Wartime Letters and Diaries 1915-1919 of Georges Vanier): An article from: Catholic Insight

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Few ex-husbands around: female transplant candidates may not have social support.(Cardiovascular Medicine)(Brief Article): An article from: Internal Medicine News

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Kitzhaber to reveal whether he'll run.(Politics)(The ex-governor will make an announcement today about his political plans) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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The new vision: the speech I want the Democratic nominee to give.(Cover story): An article from: Washington Monthly

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Real estate industry pads coffers.(Elections)(More than a quarter-million dollars has graced candidates' campaign funds, with most money going to Republicans): ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Zedillo iba a ser removido de la campaña... cuando mataron a Colosio.(Ernesto Zedillo, Presidente de México; Luis Donaldo Colosio, ex-candidato presidencial ... candidate): An article from: Proceso

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Zedillo iba a ser removido de la campaña... cuando mataron a Colosio.(Ernesto Zedillo, Presidente de México; Luis Donaldo Colosio, ex-candidato presidencial ... candidate): An article from: Proceso
Alvaro Delgado
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Title: Zedillo iba a ser removido de la campaña... cuando mataron a Colosio.(Ernesto Zedillo, Presidente de México; Luis Donaldo Colosio, ex-candidato presidencial de México)(TT: Zedillo was going to be removed from the campaign... when they killed Colosio.)(TA: Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico; Luis Donaldo Colosio, former Mexican presidential candidate)
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The ex-chief justice and the printer: Being a report of a trial for libel, Titus Hutchinson vs. B.F. Kendall : had before the honorable county court, for ... candidate," are so profusely variegated

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Outstanding expose of the illegal immigration mess.......2004-05-27

Qualified by his service in the border patrol, the author writes a well documented and thorough analysis of the U.S. government's intentional support for massive illegal immigration. The magnitude of the problem, and its devastating effects on the American people, is clearly shown.

The benefit of cheap labor for busineses is of course subsidized by the taxpayers, who bear the costs for the health care, social services benefits, education, insurance, and load on the criminal justice systems. The failure of elected officials to represent the best interests and will of the American people is convincingly described.

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