Women's historian speaks Sunday
NORWICH – On Sunday, the Chenango County Historical Society will host noted women’s historian Sally Roesch Wagner, presenting the topic “Iroquois Influence on the Women’s Rights Movement.” The lecture is based on Dr. Wagner’s landmark book Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (Native Voices, 2001), which will also be offered for sale. The program is sponsored by The New York State Council For The Humanities.
On the cutting edge of feminist scholarship, Sally Roesch Wagner describes how women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy inspired early feminists by providing a model of empowered women. At a time when Euro-American women had few rights, Haudenosaunee women possessed decisive political voice, personal rights and freedoms, satisfying work and a society virtually free of rape and domestic violence. The thinking of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage became transformed through their involvement with their indigenous neighbors in upstate New York. Interactions with the people of the Onondaga Nation, Dr. Wagner observes, provided our foremothers not only a model of egalitarian gender relations, but served to inspire Central New York’s radical reform movements relative to health, food and dress.
“We are so pleased to be offering this wonderful program to observe Native American month,” said Programs Coordinator Diane Hamblin. “It is an innovative study of Native influence on this important area of national history, which is also so unique to the history of upstate New York.”
One of the first women to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States (UC Santa Cruz, 1978), Sally Roesch Wagner is also a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University, Sacramento (1970). A women’s studies professor for 37 years and now Executive Director of the Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, Wagner is the nation’s foremost authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage. Dr. Wagner appeared as a “talking head” in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,” for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide. She was an historian in the PBS special, “One Woman, One Vote” and has been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Democracy Now.” The 1997 Jeanette K. Watson Women’s Studies Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University and author of numerous books and articles, Wagner’s other recent titles include: She Who Holds the Sky: Matilda Joslyn Gage (Sky Carrier Press, 2003); Introduction to the reprint of Matilda Joslyn Gage’s 1893 classic Woman, Church and State (Humanity Books, 2002).
The lecture begins at 2 p.m. at the Chenango County Historical Society Museum at 45 Rexford Street, Norwich. Admission is free but donations are always appreciated. The program will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to meet with Dr. Wagner and have books autographed. Dr. Wagner’s books will also be available for sale. For more information, contact the Museum at 334-9227.
On the cutting edge of feminist scholarship, Sally Roesch Wagner describes how women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy inspired early feminists by providing a model of empowered women. At a time when Euro-American women had few rights, Haudenosaunee women possessed decisive political voice, personal rights and freedoms, satisfying work and a society virtually free of rape and domestic violence. The thinking of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage became transformed through their involvement with their indigenous neighbors in upstate New York. Interactions with the people of the Onondaga Nation, Dr. Wagner observes, provided our foremothers not only a model of egalitarian gender relations, but served to inspire Central New York’s radical reform movements relative to health, food and dress.
“We are so pleased to be offering this wonderful program to observe Native American month,” said Programs Coordinator Diane Hamblin. “It is an innovative study of Native influence on this important area of national history, which is also so unique to the history of upstate New York.”
One of the first women to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States (UC Santa Cruz, 1978), Sally Roesch Wagner is also a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University, Sacramento (1970). A women’s studies professor for 37 years and now Executive Director of the Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, Wagner is the nation’s foremost authority on Matilda Joslyn Gage. Dr. Wagner appeared as a “talking head” in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,” for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide. She was an historian in the PBS special, “One Woman, One Vote” and has been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Democracy Now.” The 1997 Jeanette K. Watson Women’s Studies Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University and author of numerous books and articles, Wagner’s other recent titles include: She Who Holds the Sky: Matilda Joslyn Gage (Sky Carrier Press, 2003); Introduction to the reprint of Matilda Joslyn Gage’s 1893 classic Woman, Church and State (Humanity Books, 2002).
The lecture begins at 2 p.m. at the Chenango County Historical Society Museum at 45 Rexford Street, Norwich. Admission is free but donations are always appreciated. The program will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to meet with Dr. Wagner and have books autographed. Dr. Wagner’s books will also be available for sale. For more information, contact the Museum at 334-9227.
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