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Article: Matilda Joslyn Gage: feminist and secular humanist.
- Article from:
- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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Not alone to aid her own enfranchisement--valueless without religious liberty--but in order to help preserve the very life of the Republic, it is imperative that women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church."
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage thus challenged the woman suffrage movement toward the close of the nineteenth century to face what she felt was the real cause of the oppression of women. In so doing, she separated herself from scores of colleagues with whom she had struggled to gain equality for more than thirty-five years. How did this intellectual, ...