The Radical Feminist Behind the Curtain

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'The Wizard of Oz' revolves around a girl who realizes her inner strength. For this, you can thank radical feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage. This WomensHistoryMonth, it’s time to finally pay attention to the woman behind the curtain.

, a mere 205-word write-up stationed below an advertisement for Tiffany & Co., that reads in part, “Mrs. Gage was one of the earliest champions of woman’s rights in America … At age 26, she joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton in suffrage work, and became one of the suffragists’ most effective lecturers.”

Instead, we are told that Gage died at the home of her youngest daughter, “Mrs. L. F. Baum.” Mrs. L. F. Baum, better known as Maud, had defied the expectations of her mother,As Baum’s biographer, “Even by the high standards of the world’s most menacing mothers-in-law, she set herself apart … Mrs. Gage railed against religious leaders and politicians for a living and was so controversial and so scary to some that she was deemed ‘an infidel,’ her activities called ‘satanic.

That Gage is not better known to modern Americans is the result of deliberate actions taken by Anthony to distance the movement from Gage’s radical ideas, namely that the church’s hierarchies were inherently oppressive to women. As historian , “Anthony in particular recognized that claiming her as central to the woman suffrage narrative was too dangerous.”, Baum became the outspoken secretary of his local Equal Suffrage Club, writing in a newspaper editorial, “We must do away with sex prejudice and render equal distinction and reward to brains and ability, no matter whether found in man or woman.”.

, Gage sent her son-in-law a newspaper ad for a story contest, writing on the enclosure, “Now you are a good writer and I advise you to try. Of course, you have but a little time, but ideas may flow.”

 

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Interesting. I always thought Dorothy was foolish to leave her position of authority in Oz, but am now rethinking that.

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