We Want Equal Rights!: How Suffragists Were Influenced By Native American Women

bySally Roesch Wagner

August 1, 2020|
We Want Equal Rights!: How Suffragists Were Influenced By Native American Women by Sally Roesch Wagner
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This is the story of remarkable women who laid the foundation for the modern women''s movement and the American Indian nation that proved equality was possible. In 1850, these brave women challenged a culture that believed they were inferior to men. How did they envision such a world? They looked to their neighbors the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and saw how women were held in high regard, with even greater rights than men. In the United States, a woman was considered subservient to her husband, who gained all his wife''s wealth upon marriage. Women had no claim to their children and were considered runaway slaves if they left an abusive man. In contrast Haudenosaunee society provided a shining example of what is possible when women are treated with respect. Read how early activists forged a path to women''s equal rights using the ideals of their Indian neighbors.
Feminist pioneer Sally Roesch Wagner, PhD, is a nationally recognized lecturer, author, and storyteller of the history of women?s rights. She is a founder of one of the country?s first college women?s studies programs (California State University, Sacramento) and has taught women?s history for forty-eight years. She currently serves as...
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Title:We Want Equal Rights!: How Suffragists Were Influenced By Native American Women
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:48 pages, 9 X 6 X 0.68 in
Shipping dimensions:48 pages, 9 X 6 X 0.68 in
Published:August 1, 2020
Publisher:Book Publishing Company
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781939053282

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