Synopses & Reviews
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman's rights' activist during the 19th century, committed to the woman suffrage movement and civil rights. This book brings needed attention to Gage's life and work and explores her impact on women's rights. Using an advanced and distinctive form of feminist thought that encompassed an incisive analysis of patriarchy, Gage even criticized the church as patriarchy's prime sponsor. In fact, Gage connected all of women's oppression, including prostitution, marriage customs, divorce, rape and cusotdy rights to patriarchy, It is perhaps for her radical theory that Gage's arguments remain salient and controversial today. An overdue addition to the scholarship on the role feminists like Matilda Joslyn Gage have played in history, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of United States history, women's history, and women's studies.
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We should know more about Matilda Joslyn Gage, both for her own contributions and for what she can tell us about the dynamics of the woman suffrage movement. Leila R. Brammer's Ixcluded from Suffrage HistoryRbegins this process.Journal of the Early Republic vol.22 no.1
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This book is intended for professional historians wanting information on Gage's writings.History: Reviews of New Books
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This text will prove to be a valuable resource for anyone studying the suffragist movement of the 19th century. Gage was a remarkable character in its history, and this book should help to bring her more into the limelight.American Revolution Organizations
Synopsis
Discusses Matilda Joslyn Gage, a key figure in the 19th century woman suffrage movement whose advanced feminist thought resulted in her exclusion from the movement and its history by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Life and Activities of Matilda Joslyn Gage
The Woman Suffrage Movement
Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman's Rights
Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage
Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Church
The Exclusion of Matilda Joslyn Gage from the Woman Suffrage Movement
The Exclusion of Matilda Joslyn Gage from History
Conclusion