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Sisters in Spirit

HAUDENOSAUNEE (IROQUOIS) INFLUENCE ON EARLY AMERICAN FEMINISTS

ISBN 1-57067-121-4
128 pages $9.95

SISTERS IN SPIRIT is a new approach to the origins of feminism by pioneer scholar Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. After 20 years of studying the writings of early U.S. women's rights activists, the author observed, "My life as a scholar changed when it finally dawned on me...the most far-thinking of the early feminists drew their courage and vision from women of color."

The Iroquois Confederacy’s practice of gender equality inspired the emerging woman’s rights movement in upstate New York. Through the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, among others, this provocative and compelling history of women’s struggle for freedom documents the influence the Haudenosaunee women had on this broad social movement.

These founding pioneers of women’s rights lived with a degree of courage and dedication that is heroic by today's standards. Sisters In Spirit offers a fresh appreciation of their efforts and the role their Iroquois sisters played.

About the Author:

Sally Roesch Wagner was one of the first women in the country to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies. After teaching women’s studies for 20 years, Dr. Wagner toured the country as a lecturer and performer, bringing to life such historical figures as Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Her consultation work includes an appearance in the Ken Burns documentary "Not For Ourselves Alone" (for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide) and the PBS special "One Woman, One Vote".

The Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, Dr. Wagner is the author of numerous books and articles including a modern reader’s edition of Matilda Joslyn Gage’s 1893 classic, Woman, Church and State (1998) and an accompanying monograph, Matilda Joslyn Gage: She Who Holds the Sky. And she has received, among other honors, the Unsung Heroine Award from the Central New York National Organization for Women, 1999.

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