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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.
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The Radical Feminist Behind the Curtain

Jamie Jordan
The Radical Feminist Behind the Curtain

“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.

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