Wendy McElroy

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Wendy McElroy

Wendy McElroy (August 2001)
Born 1951
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Occupation Author and speaker

Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist.

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[edit] Political views

Among feminists, she distinguishes herself as being sex-positive: defending the availability of pornography and condemning anti-pornography feminism campaigns.[1] She has also voiced criticism of sexual harassment policies, particularly the zero-tolerance policies common to grade schools, which she considers to be "far too broad and vague" and lacking the sound research necessary to guide responsible policy-making decisions.[2]

In explaining her position in regard to capitalism[3], she says she has a "marked personal preference for capitalism as the most productive, fair and sensible economic system on the face of the earth," but also recognizes that the free market permits other kinds of systems as well. She says what she wants for society is "not necessarily a capitalistic arrangement but a free market system in which everyone can make the peaceful choices they wish with their own bodies and labor." Therefore, she doesn't call herself a capitalist but someone for a "free market."[4]

McElroy wrote Queen Silver: The Godless Girl about her friend Queen Selections Silver. Silver was a left-wing anarchist, but despite vigorous political difference, the two remained close.

McElroy has a regular column on ifeminists.com,[5] is a member of the Liberty and Power group weblog at the History News Network, and is a frequent contributor to Lewrockwell.com.

She credits Murray Rothbard's book "Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles" as being "solely responsible for turning [her] from the advocacy of limited government to a lifetime of work within the individualist-anarchist tradition."[6]

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  • National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition, by Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy, January 1, 2004 ISBN 0-7864-1595-9
  • Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881-1908, February 1, 2003 ISBN 0-7391-0473-X
  • Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, May 1, 2002 ISBN 1-56663-435-0
  • Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women, June 2001
  • Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition by Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy, January 1, 2001
  • Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century: Collected Writings and Biographical Profiles, January 1, 2001
  • Queen Silver : The Godless Girl (Women's Studies (Amherst, N.Y.) by Wendy McElroy, Queen Selections Silver, December 1, 1999
  • Freedom, Feminism, and the State by Wendy McElroy, Lewis Perry, February 1, 1999
  • The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival, April 1, 1998
  • XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy, Prelude Pr, 1995, ISBN 0-312-13626-9
  • Liberty, 1881-1908: A Comprehensive Index, January 1982

[edit] References

  1. ^ You Are What You Read?
  2. ^ Sexual Harassment Policies Need Reform by Wendy McElroy
  3. ^ Capitalism Versus the Free Market
  4. ^ Capitalism Versus the Free Market
  5. ^ ifeminists.com: News
  6. ^ McElroy, Wendy. Rothbard as System-Builder: A Tribute. Liberty Magazine.

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