Josephine Conger-Kaneko

Josephine Conger-Kaneko
The Socialist Woman magazine cover featuring playwright Marion Craig Wentworth, April 1908

Josephine Conger-Kaneko (born in 1874) was an American journalist and writer.

Biography

Josephine Conger was born in Centralia, Missouri. After attending the radical Ruskin College at Trenton, Missouri, she became a socialist[1] and joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a newspaper in Girard, Kansas. In 1907 she began publishing a separate woman's periodical, The Socialist Woman. Two years later the name changed to The Progressive Woman (1909-1913) and was renamed again as The Coming Nation (1913-1914).[2][3] Conger-Kaneko believed that men and women were equal and that sexual differences were imposed by society.[4] In 1905 she married Kiichi Kaneko, a Japanese socialist.

After 1914 Conger moved to Chicago, where she continued to publish The Coming Nation. She continued this for another year or two. The most extensive collection of Conger's writings, the ones published in The Appeal to Reason, are housed in the Pittsburg State University, Kansas.[5] After World War I she retired from politics.[6]

She was a niece of J.A. Wayland.

See also

Works

  • (1909). A Little Sister of the Poor. Progressive Woman Publishing Company.
  • (1911). Woman's Slavery: Her Road to Freedom. Progressive Woman Publishing Company.
  • (1918). Woman's Voice: An Anthology. Boston: The Stratford Company.

Selected articles

References

  1. ↑ Buhle, Mari Jo (1970). "Women and the Socialist Party, 1901-1914," Radical America 4 (2), pp. 36-47, 50-54.
  2. ↑ Wayne, Tiffany K. (2011). Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History. ABC-CLIO, p. 400.
  3. ↑ "Publisher's Preface". The Coming Nation: viii. November 1913. This magazine was formerly The Progressive Woman. This is its first appearance under the new name, The Coming Nation.
  4. ↑ Wayne (2011), p. 401.
  5. ↑ "Re: Query: Josephine Conger Kaneko". H-Net Discussion Networks. 1999-04-26. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
  6. ↑ Jones, Margaret C. (1993). Heretics & Hellraisers: Women Contributors to The Masses, 1911-1917. University of Texas Press, p. 173.

Further reading

  • Buhle, Mari Jo (1983). Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920. University of Illinois Press.
  • Endres, Kathleen L. (1996). "The Progressive Woman," in Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Japp, Debra K. (1989). Forging Bond of Unity and Sympathy among Women: A Cultural-Rhetorical Analysis of 'The Progressive Woman', 1907-1914. PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
  • Shore, Elliott (1988). Talkin' Socialism: J.A. Wayland and the Role of the Press in American Radicalism, 1890-1912. University Press of Kansas.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.