Matilda Joslyn Gage

Woman, Church and State (eBook, ePUB)

The Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages With Reminiscences of Matriarchate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the assertion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christianity than ever before: Continually hearing these statements, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight resume of the subject at the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., 1878. A wish to see that speech in print, having been expressed, it was allowed to appear in The National Citizen, a woman suffrage paper I then edited, and shortly afterwards in "The History of Woman Suffrage," of which I was also an editor. The kindly reception given both in the United States and Europe to that meager chapter of forty pages confirmed my purpose of a fuller presentation of the subject in book form, and it now appears, the result of twenty years investigation, in a volume of over five hundred and fifty pages. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a 19th-century women's suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copycat
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788028227609
• Artikelnr.: 65714342

Autorenporträt

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) stands as a significant figure in nineteenth-century American feminism. A contemporary and collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gage's work extended beyond suffrage into other realms of social reform. Her seminal work, 'Woman, Church and State' (1893), is a critical examination of the historical relationship between patriarchy, Christianity, and the legal and political marginalization of women. In this text, Gage elucidates on the detriments of organized religion and its impact on the repression of women's rights, drawing on historical anecdotes and scholarly research of the era to underscore her arguments. Gage's literary style is assertively analytical, correlating scholarly examination with her advocacy for women's liberation. Pioneering in its critique of religious institutions and the power structures that facilitated gender inequality, 'Woman, Church and State' remains an essential reading in the study of feminism and women's history. Moreover, as an activist, Gage's progressive stances on Native American rights and her denouncement of the Christian state provide a glimpse into her broad egalitarian philosophy. Her contributions to American thought and her relentless fight for equality cement her position as an indomitable spirit in the chronicles of social justice.