Description:

This groundbreaking examination of the early influences on feminism may revolutionize feminist theory. Distinguished historian and contemporary feminist scholar Sally Roesch Wagner has compiled extensive research to analyze the source of the revolutionary vision of the early feminists.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott had formed friendships with their Native neighbors that enabled them to understand a world view far different, and in many ways superior, to the patriarchal one that existed at that time.

This is the provocative and compelling history of their struggle to bring equality and dignity to all women, and the role played by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women who modelled the position women could occupy in society.

Review

The author recounts the compelling history of women's struggle for freedom and equality in the USA and documents the Iroquois influence on this broad social movement. Iroquois women possessed rights beyond the wildest imagination of their European sisters. Their roles of responsibility and power within their tribes inspired and set into motion the revolutionary changes sought by women in the early days of America.

About the Author

Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is a feminist pioneer, speaker, activist, and the author of several books and numerous articles. She is also a founder of one of the first women's studies programs in the U.S.A.