Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists

by Sally Roesch Wagner, John Fadden (Illustrator)

Overview

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women sparked the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of freedom at a time when American women experienced few rights. Women of the Six Nations Confederacy possessed decisive political power, control of their bodies, control of their own property, custody of their children, the power to initiate divorce, satisfying work and a society generally free of rape and domestic violence. Historian Sally Roesch Wagner recounts the struggle for freedom and equality waged by early American women documenting how Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Matilda Joslyn Gage were influenced by their Indigenous women neighbors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570671210
Publisher:	Book Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/05/2001
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is a feminist pioneer, speaker, activist and author. She has taught women’s studies for 48 years and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University and the St. John Fisher Executive Leadership Program. She lives in Syracuse, New York.

John (Kahionhes) Fadden (Mohawk) is a published illustrator of children's and young adult books. He was born in 1938. His father is Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) and his son is artist David (Kanietakeron) Fadden. He lives in Onchionta, New York.