Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist, Vol. 182

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enlarge picture	*Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist, Vol. 182*
	Author:	Leila R. Brammer
	ISBN:	031330467X
	Format:	Handover
	Publish Date:	June, 2005




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*Book Description* Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman's rights activist during the 19th century, committed to the woman suffrage movement. This book brigns needed attention to Gage's life and work and explores her impact on women's rights. Using an advanced and distincitve 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'ts oppression, including prostitution, marriage customs, divorce, rape, and custody rights to patriarchy. It is perhaps for her radical theory that Gage's arguments remain salient and controvesial 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. *About the Author* LEILA R. BRAMMER is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist, Vol. 182 FROM THE PUBLISHER Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman's rights activist during the 19th century, committed to the woman suffrage movement. This book brigns needed attention to Gage's life and work and explores her impact on women's rights. Using an advanced and distincitve 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'ts oppression, including prostitution, marriage customs, divorce, rape, and custody rights to patriarchy. It is perhaps for her radical theory that Gage's arguments remain salient and controvesial 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. 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.