Chapter X. Past, Present, Future : p. 525 CHAPTER X PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. The most important struggle in the history of the church is that of woman for liberty of thought and the right to give that thought to the world. As a spiritual force the church appealed to barbaric conception when it declared woman to have been made for m...
Chapter V. Witchcraft : p. 217 CHAPTER V. WITCHCRAFT. Although toward the beginning of the IV. century, people began to speak of the nocturnal meeting of witches and sorcerers, under the name of "Assembly of Diana," or "Herodia," it was not until canon or church law, had become quite engrafted upon the civil law, th...
Title Page : WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE: A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN THROUGH THE CHRISTIAN AGES: WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE MATRIARCHATE: BY MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY, 28 LAFAYETTE PLACE. [1893] {Scanned , March-April 2002. John Bruno Hare, Redactor.} p...
Chapter Iii. Canon Law : p. 113 CHAPTER III. CANON LAW. The earliest Saxon laws were almost entirely ecclesiastical,1 their basis seeming to have been payment of titles to the Church and support of the pope through what was known as the "hearth penny" to St. Peter. Marriage was by no means allowed to escape general...
Errata : ERRATA FOR WOMEN, CHURCH AND STATE Page 80: For ecclesistical read ecclesiastical Page 92: For annihiliated read annihilated Page 94: For parishoners read parishioners Page 135: For noticable read noticeable Page 161: For liasons read liaisons Page 181: For govermental read governmental Page 192:...
Chapter I. The Matriarchate : p. 11 WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE CHAPTER I. THE MATRIARCHATE. Woman is told that her present position in society is entirely due to Christianity; that it is superior to that of her sex at any prior age of the world, Church and State both maintaining that she has ever been inferior and dependent, m...
Chapter Ii. Celibacy : p. 49 CHAPTER II. CELIBACY. While the inferior and secondary position of woman early became an integral portion of Christianity, its fullest efforts are seen in Church teachings regarding marriage. Inasmuch as it was a cardinal doctrine that the fall of Adam took place through his temptati...
Chapter Vii. Polygamy : p. 398 CHAPTER VII. POLYGAMY. It is of indisputed historic record that both the Christian Church and the Christian State in different centuries and under a number of differing circumstances gave their influence in favor of polygamy. The Roman emperor, Valentinian I., in the fourth century...
Chapter Iv. Marquette : p. 152 CHAPTER IV. MARQUETTE. The minds of people having been corrupted through centuries by the doctrines of the Church in regard to woman, it became an easy step for the State to aid in her degradation. The system of feudalism arising from the theory that warfare was the normal condition of m...
Chapter Vi. Wives : p. 295 CHAPTER VI. WIVES. Under Roman law before Christianity had gained control of the empire, a form of marriage existed known as "Usus," which secured much freedom to wives. It was entered into without the terrifying religious ceremonies which made "Confarraetio," practically indissoluble...
Untitled : WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE: BY MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. [1893] Jump to Index Start Reading During the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 70s a popular slogan was "not the church, not the state, women shall decide their fate". Matilda Joslyn Gage would have approved. Vehemently anti-clerical, "Women...
Chapter Ix. The Church Of To Day : p. 466 CHAPTER IX THE CHURCH OF TO-DAY. While under advancing civilization, a recognition of the religious rights of woman is steadily progressing among people at large, it requires but slight investigation to prove that olden church theories regarding her not only came into the reformation, but...
Preface : p. 5 PREFACE. 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 inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal...
Chapter Viii. Woman And Work : p. 432 CHAPTER VIII. WOMAN AND WORK. And unto Adam the Lord said; "Cursed be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread...
