Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages; With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate
This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired Of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs in?icted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name Of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the asser tion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christian ity than ever before: Continually hearing these state ments, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight rein/m! Of the subject at the annual conven tion of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D. C., 1878.
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