Author: Sue Boland
Sue Boland is the local historian for the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue (matildajoslyngage.org) in Fayetteville, NY, having studied Gage for twenty years with Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. Sue has a master’s degree in public history from the University at Albany (SUNY).
God and Woman Suffrage: In the Beginning
I have relied on the published proceedings of the Third National Woman’s Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York, 1852, available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011539064, and have chosen for consistency to use “woman’s rights” and “woman suffrage,” as the suffragists of this time did. Nineteenth-century quotes are transcribed with their original spelling and punctuation. All Bible quotes are …
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Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist, by Angelica Shirley Carpenter (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1941813188). 272 pp. Hardcover, $16.95. Sexual assault, misogyny, racism, isolationism, homophobia, human rights violations, and the Christian Right’s use of the Bible to justify all of the above—the news stories of the past few years in the …