Gage argued that women’s subordination was not ancient but installed: a matriarchate before it, then canon law, the doctrine of marital unity, witch persecution and the church’s claim on a wife’s body and property. It was too anticlerical for her own movement, which quietly dropped her — and it is the boldest book any of them wrote.
The suffrage movement’s most radical book, and its most suppressed. Download the free EPUB.