Searching for Matilda: Portrait of a Forgotten Feminist - Softcover

Shapiro, Charlotte M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615772323 ISBN 13: 9780615772325

Publisher: Charlotte M. Shapiro, 2013

Synopsis

How can a woman who was as vital as her colleagues, Susan B.Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in the 19th century woman’s rights movement still be unknown? Matilda Joslyn Gage was purposely omitted, even excluded, from history. Charlotte Shapiro, determined to uncover the mystery of Gage’s exclusion, spent four years researching the literature and history of that period. Searching for Matilda: Portrait of a Forgotten Feminist reveals the personal and political conflicts responsible for Gage’s omission from history, an omission that denied her writings and feminist theories to the second women’s movement and to all of us who worked for women’s equality.

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Searching for Matilda is a fascinating journey of rediscovering one of Feminism's most important-and forgotten-theorists, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Charlotte M. Shapiro's meticulously researched account of suffragist history convincingly argues that Gage must be restored to her central position in the Feminist canon. Lynn Povich, Author, THE GOOD GIRLS REVOLT

Biographers and historians have focused, far too long, on a small circle of nineteenth century iconic figures who led the fight for woman suffrage and women's rights. In this book, Charlotte Shapiro adds the name of Matilda Joslyn Gage to that list and gives us new and valuable information about her life and work, including Gage's cutting-edge theoretical writings. Nobody should call herself a student of the first women's movement without reading Searching for Matilda. Jill Norgren, Author, BELVA LOCKWOOD, The Woman Who Would be President.

As an advocate for women's equal employment rights, Charlotte Shapiro found a soulmate in Matilda Joslyn Gage, a passionate advocate for women's equal rights. Gage lived a time when women were told they would have to be "fit" to earn the right to vote. Searching for information in 50 book and internet references, Shapiro proves that Matilda Joslyn Gage, excluded from history for too long, deserves prominence for her brilliance and leadership as a 19th century feminist. Lillian McCormick, Founder and Executive Director of Women on the Job, Long Island, NY

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlotte M. Shapiro
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615772323
• ISBN 13: 9780615772325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104