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"We are battling for the good of those who shall come after us."
"We are battling for the good of those who shall come after us."
DR. SALLY ROESCH WAGNER
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DR. SALLY ROESCH WAGNER
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Awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento), Dr. Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 51 years. The Founder/Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, she teaches in Syracuse University’s Honors Program and California State University, Sacramento’s Women and Gender Studies department.
A major historian of the suffrage movement, Dr. Wagner is active on the national scene. She appeared on the CNN Special Report: Women Represented and CNN’s Quest’s World of Wonder. She has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, Nation and Time Magazine, among others. Her recent articles appeared in the New York Daily News, Ms. Magazine, the National Women’s History Alliance newsletter and National Suffrage Centennial Commission blog. In March 2021, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian featured the film, Without a Whisper which traces Dr. Wagner’s research demonstrating the Haudenosaunee influence on the suffrage movement through her friendship with Wakerakats:te, the Mohawk Bear Clan Mother. She appeared in and wrote the faculty guide for the Ken Burns’ documentary, “Not for Ourselves Alone.”
A prolific author, Dr. Wagner’s anthology The Women's Suffrage Movement, with a Forward by Gloria Steinem (Penguin Classics, 2019), unfolds a new intersectional look at the 19th century woman’s rights movement. Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (Native Voices, 2001) documents the surprisingly unrecognized authority of Native women, who inspired the suffrage movement. It was followed by her young reader’s book, We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influenced by Native American Women (Native Voices, 2020).
Among her awards, Dr. Wagner was selected as a 2020 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction, one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s E-News in 2015 and she received the Katherine Coffey Award for outstanding service to museology from the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums in 2012.
Women are receiving “less pay than man for the same kind and quality of work,” suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage charged in the 1850’s when feminists demanded “equal pay for equal work.” 170 years ago women made half the wages of men; today we make a little over 75%. Will it take us another 170 years to reach pay equity?
Conservative Chr
Women are receiving “less pay than man for the same kind and quality of work,” suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage charged in the 1850’s when feminists demanded “equal pay for equal work.” 170 years ago women made half the wages of men; today we make a little over 75%. Will it take us another 170 years to reach pay equity?
Conservative Christians aligned with the American Medical Association to pass laws in the 1870’s imprisoning anyone educating about birth control or giving abortions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed in a “woman's right to become a mother or not as her desire, judgment and conscience may dictate...to be absolute sovereign of herself”.
Progressive suffragists Stanton and Gage believed in the rights of the unborn, and the most sacred right, the most important one, they said, is the right to be wanted and chosen. Only if the woman decides, they made clear, is that possible.
These struggles of women today –and more --were those of our feminist foremothers. Why has that herstory been stolen from us?
The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the fight for the vote until 1920, when women received the right to vote with the 19th amendment.
Is this the story you learned about the women’s suffrage movement? Unfortunately, every part of it is wrong. ...Learn more
Imagine that women have the right to choose all political representatives, removing from office anyone who doesn’t make wise decisions for the future. Living in a world free from violence against them, women will not allow a man to hold office if he has violated a woman. Economically independent, they have the final say in matters of war
Imagine that women have the right to choose all political representatives, removing from office anyone who doesn’t make wise decisions for the future. Living in a world free from violence against them, women will not allow a man to hold office if he has violated a woman. Economically independent, they have the final say in matters of war and peace and the absolute right to their own bodies. This existed on this land-before Columbu
“PACKED WITH HISTORICAL PHOTOS…WRITTEN IN AN ENGAGING WAY…DELIVERS FACTS SMOOTHLY, UNDERSTANDABLY AND QUICKLY”, Bookworm lauded her latest young-adult publication, We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influence by Native American Women, (7th Generation, 2020) .
A “FASCINATING NEW ANTHOLOGY”, the New Yorker praised her intersectional anthology, The Women’s Suffrage Movement while Forbes named it one of “10 INSPIRATIONAL BOOKS.” Penguin Classic’s #1 bestseller in the first month of the book’s release, it made Bustle’s “7 Bad-ass Non-fiction Books.
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