“Fact-checking Feminism”

with Sally Roesch Wagner

Thursday,  Sept. 22, 2022 at 3 PM Eastern DaylightTime 

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“The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the fight for the vote until 1920, when women received the right to vote with the 19^th amendment.” Is this the story you learned about the women’s suffrage movement? Unfortunately, every part of it is wrong. Let’s explore these true stories instead:

• Indigenous women have had political voice on this land for 1000 years, while 2020 marks just 100 years since the constitution added women to legal voters in the United States.
• Women voted in the colonies. They lost the right after the revolution when states made it illegal for women – and African American men – to vote.
• Black and white women organized anti-slavery societies a decade before the Seneca Falls convention, where they learned the essentials of organizing they brought to the women’s rights movement.
• Initially women created a women’s rights movement, demanding everything from equal pay to a woman’s right to control her body. After a merger of the conservative and progressive suffrage organizations in 1890 the focus narrowed to a push for the vote.
• While the 19^th amendment guaranteed women the right to vote, in practice voter suppression laws denied, and continue to deny, the vote to citizens.

Let’s check the facts about the history of women’s voting rights–to correct the past record and give us more fuel to improve the present!

Awarded one of the first U.S. doctorates for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is a founder of the first college-level women’s studies programs to offer a minor (CSU Sacramento) where she currently teaches, along with courses in Syracuse University’s Honors Program.. Dr. Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 52 years and is the Founder/Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation. Dr. Wagner’s anthology The Women’s Suffrage Movement, with a Forward by Gloria Steinem (Penguin Classics, 2019), unfolds a new intersectional look at the 19th century woman’s rights movement and the Indigenous influence on suffragists.

Save these dates for the next ASWM Salons:

October 6, 2022, 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time  
“When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix ”
Monica Mody

October 20, 2022, 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time  
“Pongala, a woman’s festival: Cooking up joy!”
Dianne Jenett

November 17, 2022, 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time  
“Matriarchal Landscape Mythology”
Andrea Fleckinger and Heide Goettner-Abendroth

The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event.