The article is devoted to the personality and the socio - political views of the famous American anarchist and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912). The author links the growth of the interest among American scholars in the 70s of the 20th century to the anarchist personality with the formation of a feminist agenda in the political and public arena of the United States. The author draws a biographical portrait of de Cleyre, based on her own memories, testimonies of her contemporaries and the work of the researchers, gives her a characterization as an ideologist and considers the main ideas of her social philosophy expressed, among other things, in her poetry. Based on an analysis of de Cleyre’s poetry, conclusions are drawn about the possibility of studying her poetic heritage, since it reflects the main ideas of the anarchist no less than her essays and public speeches. Among the main views of de Cleyre’s social philosophy the author distinguishes: anti - clericalism, anti - statism, the idea of the unjust arrangement of the marriage institution, feminism, etc. The author unites all the de Cleyre social philosophyviews on the basis of the concept of “anarchism without adjectives”, introduced into the anarchist discourse of de Cleyre herself.
