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Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist (Contributions in Women's Studies)
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2934748 in Books
- Published on: 2000-07-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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.”–
“This book is intended for professional historians wanting information on Gage's writings.”–
“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.”–
“...provides an overview of an important woman with an active mind who has been relatively overlooked by students of suffrage history.”–
About the Author
LEILA R. BRAMMER is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Customer Reviews
A journey in meaning...
In this book, Brammer presents a compact, persuasive argument for the inclusion of the unheard voices in various social movements in this country. By examining the contributions of Joslyn Gage, Brammer articulates how the framing of movement discourse can and does marginalize voices of the extreme. Brammer's exceptional grasp of rhetoric is made clear through her discussion of meaning in social movements. She successfully shows that the rhetoric of Joslyn Gage is cruicial to the understanding of the femanist movement of the 19th Century. With wit and ease, Brammer brings to life this early radical of the femanist campaign and sheds insight on the rhetoric of exclusion within social movements.
