Buy this book
"This classic history of women's oppression is one of the first attempts to document the legacy of injustice and discrimination against women, which is inseparable from both the history of Christianity and the evolution of the Western state. Pioneering women's rights advocate Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) traces the patterns of male domination in both church and state that kept women in virtual bondage.
Among the topics of her research are the medieval belief that women were unclean and the cause of original sin, their discrimination in canon law, their abuse in the feudal system, the witch-hunts, the virtual slave status of wives and their legal subjugation to their husbands, the debilitating drudgery of women's daily work, and the widespread opposition to women's education.".
"Originally published in 1893, this work was the fruit of twenty years' research. Complementing this edition is an introduction by author and lecturer Sally Roesch Wagner, who helped found one of America's first programs in women's studies. She is Executive Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York."--BOOK JACKET.
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Showing 5 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
cccc
|
2
Woman, church & state: the original exposé of male collaboration against the female sex
1980, Persephone Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0930436040 9780930436049
|
cccc
|
3
Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate
1893, The Truth Seeker Company
- 2d ed.
|
bbbb
|
4
Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages: with reminiscences of the matriarchate.
1893, C.H. Kerr & Co.
Microform
in English
|
bbbb
|
5 |
aaaa
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 5 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 20, 2011 | Edited by ImportBot | import new book |
August 4, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
December 14, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | link works |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Internet Archive item record |