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"We are battling for the good of those who shall come after us."

  

DR. SALLY ROESCH WAGNER


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. Sally Roesch Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 48 years. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in The Renée Crown University Honors Program, Syracuse University and the St. John Fisher Executive Leadership Program.


She wrote the faculty guide for Not for Ourselves Alone, Ken Burns’ documentary on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and appeared in that film and numerous history films and radio programs. Dr. Wagner was selected as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s E-News in 2015. Dr. Wagner serves on the New York Suffrage Centennial Commission.


Founder and Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue in Fayetteville, New York, she received the Katherine Coffey Award for outstanding service to museology from the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums in 2012. 

Full Biography

  A Penguin classics Book. 

An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem.


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Two women run for president 150 years ago

One spends election night in jail for exposing #metoo violations by the most famous minister in the U.S. and two Wall Street operatives. The other one wins the entire electoral vote of Indiana.

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So you thought you knew about women's fight for women's rights?

But did you know that women voted in the colonies? That demanding “equal pay for equal work” was old hat by 1850? Or early suffragists demanded reproductive rights and an end to sex trafficking? There’s more…

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Women had more rights on United States soil 1000 years ago than they do now

Native women had responsibility for choosing the leadership, managed the economy, decided all issues of peace and war, controlled their own bodies and lived free of violence centuries before immigrants began arriving.

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