“The Wizard of Oz” was deeply influenced by the ideology of radical feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage may be best known as the mother-in-law of Oz novelist L. Frank Baum, but more importantly, she was an activist, who would be considered as radical in our day as she was in hers.
Author: Jamie Jordan
Jamie Jordan is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sactown Magazine and the Huffington Post.