Matilda Joslyn Gage
Pro-life women have often been stereotyped as blindly submissive to patriarchal ideological rule. How, then, to explain Matilda Joslyn Gage? Because her contemporaries — even other feminists — found her …
Pro-life women have often been stereotyped as blindly submissive to patriarchal ideological rule. How, then, to explain Matilda Joslyn Gage? Because her contemporaries — even other feminists — found her …
Elizabeth Edson Evans (1832-1911) was an artist and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, who explored the possibility of spirituality beyond religious dogmatism in books like A History of Religions …
Born in Illinois, Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915) was eighteen when she lost her mother and baby brother to a grueling six-month journey on the Oregon Trail. Duniway married a Lafayette …
Early feminist Eliza Bisbee Duffey, writing about abortion in “The Limitation of Offspring” chapter of her 1876 book The Relations of the Sexes: Like Sarah Norton, little is known about the …