Excluded From Suffrage History, Vol. 182

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.

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.

LEILA R. BRAMMER is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.