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On the cutting edge of feminist scholarship, Sally Roesch Wagner describes how women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy (the Haudenosuanee) inspired the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of empowered women. At a time when Euro-American women were under the authority of men in all areas of their lives, Haudenosaunee women possessed decisive political voice, control of their bodies and property, custody of the children they bore, 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.

Watch Sally Roesch Wagner as Matilda Joslyn Gage at Bioneers, 2009.

Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, is one of the first women to receive a doctorate in the United States for work in women’s studies, and a founder of one of the country’s first college women’s studies programs, . Dr. Wagner has taught in women’s studies for thirty-nine years.

Dr. Wagner appeared as a “talking head” in the PBS documentary, “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide for PBS. She was also an historian in the PBS special “One Woman, One Vote” and has been interviewed numerous times on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Democracy Now.”