Woman, Church & State
The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex
Woman, Church and State, published by Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1893, argues that the Christian church has been the principal agent of women's subjection throughout history. Gage, a veteran of the suffrage movement, begins with the matriarchate she believed preceded recorded history and then traces what she sees as the church's work against women: the doctrine of original sin, the celibacy of the clergy and its consequences, canon law and the laws of marriage, the treatment of women under feudalism, the persecution of witches, which she treats as a war on women, the status of wives in English and American law, and the position of women in the church of her own day. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. Woman, Church & State by Matilda Joslyn Gage is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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What kind of book is Woman, Church & State?
Woman, Church & State by Matilda Joslyn Gage is filed under "Religion & Mythology" in the Vinteuil library.
