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Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist von Angelica Shirley Carpenter
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jtsolakos | 11 weitere Rezensionen | May 22, 2020 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
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NeedMoreShelves | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 15, 2019 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
Gage was considered more radical than Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who she knew extremely through their joint work for the National Woman Suffrage Association. Gage was very well educated, and particularly interested in shining a light on forgotten women in history and women's inventions. Anthony and Stanton, who out-lived Gage, are the key people responsible for writing her out of history. Both took credit for Gage's writings and research at various times before and after her death, Anthony most egregiously. Gage's writing was often praised, and her book Woman, Church, and State garnered a personal letter from Tolstoy with the back handed compliment "It proved a woman could think logically."
Gage was other L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law, and it's thought that she greatly inspired how he wrote women and girls, particularly in the Oz books and the books written under his Edith van Dyne pseudonym. Given that Baum had only sons, I think this is probably quite true.
Highly recommend this book, or at least doing a good Wikipedia dive.½
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mabith | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 2, 2019 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
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harleyqgrayson02 | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 10, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
This biography is meant for young adults, who have less tolerance for scholarly dullness than adults, so it's very readable. Matilda Joslyn Gage was an excellent writer and speaker. She wanted to be a doctor, but could not gain admittance to medical school. What medicine lost, political activism won. Ms. Gage didn't just fight for women's right to vote. She was a historian and scholar of the movement. She was also pretty scathing about the role Christianity took (after its earliest period), in oppressing women, as well as no longer acknowledging the feminine elements, as well as the masculine, of divinity. (See chapter 21). Ms. Gage knew Greek and Hebrew, so she wasn't dependent on others' translations of Holy Writ. Her book, Woman, Church, and State, included information about anthropological and historical discoveries, societies in which women had greater rights and roles than allowed in her day, the witch-hunting period, and how Christian churches and our government failed to protect women even as they claimed they were our protectors. (I was horrified to learn that in the early 1890s Delaware's legal age for feminine consent to have sex was SEVEN years old!)
The Joslyn family home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Matilda was trusted to keep that secret a little girl.
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JalenV | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 4, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
I think the Suffragist movement needs a little more spotlight these days. Especially with the current political trend of repressing the vote and gerrymandering.
Pretty great book. Would recommend.
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m_mozeleski | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 28, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
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julieandbeli | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 20, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
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PallanDavid | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 15, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
This book had a bibliography, footnotes, and an index as well as abundant photos which really enhance the story. I highly recommend this book for students and adults.½
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book58lover | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 5, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
An interesting history read with good narrative flow once it gets going, but before it gets going it seems to struggle with its audience a bit. As this is a book about a suffragist who is not generally a household name, I would think that a basic knowledge of US history could be assumed of anyone who would pick this one up, and yet the book goes to the trouble of explaining what the Boston Tea Party was, and what the Fugitive Slave Act was. The book doesn't spend a lot of time on such exposition, but it did kinda startle me out of the narrative whenever it appeared. However, once the book gets underway, it describes the historical events in a way that emphasizes the practicalities without being tedious. It makes these events feel more immediate and recent than most history books. It also establishes and describes the sort of daily grind of Gage’s activism, the work that has to be done even though it’s unlikely to be recognized or remembered very broadly. There is also a wealth of photographs included, much more than I expected from a book like this, and they enhanced my enjoyment and connection with the material substantially.
It's not the kind of book I would recommend to someone who wasn’t already interested in the suffrage movement or women’s history, but for those interested parties, it’s an engaging and satisfying read.
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scarylullabies | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 22, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
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LilTexasLibrary | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 9, 2018 | ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/er_tiny_logo2_20h.png)
The South Dakota Historical Society Press, which published Born Criminal, considers it a YA book although it was not listed as such by LibraryThing, and LC has cataloged it without juvenile literature as a subtopic. The most YA parts of the book to me were the first few chapters in which certain terms such as abolitionist (p. 15) were defined, and the last chapter giving a history of women's rights movements to the present day (which most adults would know having lived through the later part of the twentieth century). Also, activities which teenagers might enjoy doing are described at the end of the book; one is even suggested as a class project.
Although the subtitle calls Gage a radical suffragist, I think a better description might have been radical reformer since Gage was interested in more reforms than just suffrage. While growing up her family’s home had been a stop on the Underground Railroad. She was also interested in Native American rights, religion, and witchcraft. She felt that religion was a big factor in causing women to be viewed as inferior beings to men, and was opposed to including Frances Willard's Woman's Christian Temperance Union within the suffrage movement.
Ms. Carpenter describes the tensions among various leaders in the woman's suffrage movement. Originally Gage closely worked with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; they were a group of three. They worked in the same branch of the suffrage movement, and edited the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. However, they had their differences, and both Stanton and Anthony survived Gage. Ms. Carpenter shows how even during her lifetime, Stanton and Anthony wrote Gage out of women’s history, not giving her credit for work she did.
This biography discusses Gage's whole life, including her family, in addition to her reform work. Gage’s daughter, Maud, married L. Frank Baum, the author of the Oz books. Ms. Carpenter thinks that Matilda Joslyn Gage influenced her son-in-law’s writing.
Includes numerous pictures, bibliographical references, and annotated bibliography. Unfortunately, this version lacks an index.
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sallylou61 | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 8, 2018 | Contains enough information about Baum's life and work to satisfy the casual student, and is written suitably for its junior audience.
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