Books/Writings
The Wonderful Mother of Oz
“Write the stories you tell your children,” Matilda Joslyn Gage advised her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum. Gage also shared the vision of peace and social justice that inspired the feminist utopia Baum later created in his Wizard of Oz series. In The Wonderful Mother of Oz, Sally Roesch Wagner examines the remarkable relationship between Baum and the Gage family. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.
Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback; 24 pp
Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation (Text copyright 2003 by Sally Roesch Wagner)
Matilda Joslyn Gage: She Who Holds the Sky
One of the most radical, far-sighted and articulate early feminists, Matilda Joslyn Gage was deliberately written out of history by an increasingly conservative suffrage movement. Equal in importance to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she is all but unknown today. This monograph by Gage scholar Sally Roesch Wagner sets the record straight. A lively chronicle of political activism.
Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback; 77 pp
Publisher: Sky Carrier Press
Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists
A Model of Freedom
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women fired the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of freedom for women at a time when EuroAmerican women experienced so few rights. Women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy possessed freedoms far beyond those of their white sisters: decisive political power, control of their bodies, control of their own property, custody of the children they bore, the power to initiate divorce, satisfying work, and a society generally free of rape and domestic violence.
Intrepid historian Sally Roesch Wagner recounts the compelling struggle for freedom and equality waged by women in the United States and documents the influence and inspiration Native American women gave to this dynamic social movement.
Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (2001 by Sally Roesch Wagner)
ISBN 13: 978-1-570-67-121-0
A Time of Protest: Suffragists Challenge the Republic, 1870-1887
We have “greater cause for revolution than the men of 1776” radical suffragists contended as they demonstrated, risked arrest, committed civil disobedience, refused to pay their taxes, ran a woman for U.S. president, and petitioned for their rights as citizens of a republic.
The empowering story of feminism’s legacy of nonviolent civil disobedience is told for the first time by a pioneer by a pioneer movement activist/historian Sally Roesch Wagner. A founder of one of the country’s first Women’s Studies programs, and one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. for work in the discipline, Wagner is the biographer of Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was a leading figure in the dramatic Time of Protest.
Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback; 157 pp
Publisher: Sky Carrier Press (July 1998)
