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The early American suffragettes and radical feminists of the late
nineteenth century drew inspiration for their movement from
Iroquois women. These women had always possessed rights beyond the
wildest imagination of their European sisters: control of their own
bodies, custody of the children they bore, the power to initiate
divorce, choice in the type of work they did, and the enjoyment of
a home life free of violence. Sally Roesch Wagner recounts the
compelling history of women's struggle for freedom and equality in
this country and documents the Iroquois influence on this broad
social movement. The revolutionary changes unleashed by the
Iroquois/feminist relationship continue to shape our lives.
An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women
that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the
2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria
Steinem Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The
Women's Suffrage Movement is a comprehensive and singular volume
with a distinctive focus on incorporating race, class, and gender,
and illuminating minority voices. This one-of-a-kind intersectional
anthology features the writings of the most well-known suffragists,
such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, alongside
accounts of those often overlooked because of their race, from
Native American women to African American suffragists like Ida B.
Wells and the three Forten sisters. At a time of enormous political
and social upheaval, there could be no more important book than one
that recognizes a group of exemplary women--in their own words--as
they paved the way for future generations. The editor and
introducer, Sally Roesch Wagner, is a pre-eminent scholar of the
diverse backbone of the women's suffrage movement, the founding
director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, and serves on the
New York State Women's Suffrage Commission.
Although she was one of the leading thinkers and writers of the
women's suffrage movement, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was
largely written out of history. After working in collaboration with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and after serving as
president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Gage
developed increasingly radical views on feminism, religious
liberty, and equality under the law. She eventually parted ways
with the suffrage movement and founded the more progressive Woman's
National Liberal Union. In Witness to Rebellion, award-winning
author Peter Svenson presents and examines Gage's last significant
work, a scrapbook that collects newspaper clippings about the Civil
War from the 1860s onward. Providing relevant contextual
information, Svenson formats the content of the scrapbook to
transform this important artifact into a readable work that offers
a new and engaging perspective on nineteenth-century American
history. Gage's scrapbook sheds light on her thinking, both as a
feminist and a Union patriot, as she lived through the bloodshed
and upheaval of the war years and their aftermath. Witness to
Rebellion is a valuable resource not only for scholars of history,
women's studies, and material culture, but also for general readers
with interest in women's suffrage and the Civil War.
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