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 | | Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Leila R. Brammer ISBN-10: 9780313304675 ISBN-10: 0-313-30467-X ISBN-13: 9780313304675 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30467-5 Hardcover 2000-07-30 Greenwood Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
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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. | ||