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Article: Belief and unbelief among nineteenth-century feminists: the dark side of Susan B. Anthony. (Woman in Religions).
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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The "triumvirate" of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage were considered the intellectual and charismatic leaders of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). These three friends worked tirelessly against religiously inspired sexism throughout the last half of the nineteenth century A woman's right to vote, to equality within marriage, to divorce, to speak publicly to keep her wages, and to an education and pursuit of a career of her choice were all denied by the government with the support of the churches. After years of combating the Church indirectly by challenging laws inspired by its teachings, Gage and Stanton decided to turn their ...