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For those of us who have been steeped in the American women’s movement and for those of us who have never even heard mention of it- this book will break your heart. It will break your heart because issues you think are “contemporary” or “modern” have long been resisted- for centuries by brave, intractable women.
But what breaks my heart in particular is how much I needed her voice only to learn Susan B Anthony tried to erase her from history. The tensions and duplicity is cutting. Gage attached the ideology, Anthony one mechanism. Gage had a strategy to win a war. Anthony a strategy to win a battle.
And the sadness comes when I think of the world we could have if they had all backed Gage. If they hadn’t been so afraid. The world we live in would be unrecognizably different.
Read this book- it will forever reorient you to history and to the present.
But what breaks my heart in particular is how much I needed her voice only to learn Susan B Anthony tried to erase her from history. The tensions and duplicity is cutting. Gage attached the ideology, Anthony one mechanism. Gage had a strategy to win a war. Anthony a strategy to win a battle.
And the sadness comes when I think of the world we could have if they had all backed Gage. If they hadn’t been so afraid. The world we live in would be unrecognizably different.
Read this book- it will forever reorient you to history and to the present.
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