Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate
Women’s History Month with “The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women’s
Rights,” a presentation by Sally Roesch Wagner, March 31 at 6 p.m. in the
Thaler/Howell Programming Room.
Made possible by the New York State Council for
Humanities, this program will offer a glimpse into the social, political,
religious and economic liberties Iroquois women were afforded centuries before
the suffrage movement and how those liberties inspired American suffragists,
including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Roesch Wagner, the founding and executive director
of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, is a professor of women’s studies, one
of the first women to receive a doctorate in women’s studies in the United
States, the nation’s foremost expert on Gage, and a founder of one of the first
women’s studies programs at California State University--Sacramento.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie
Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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