Matricide
The Denigration of the American Women's Suffrage Movement
Published on 22. December 2025
Book
Hardback
230 pages
979-8-9896268-6-1 (ISBN)
Description
The United States has more women's suffrage memorials than ever before, and yet suffragists are still denigrated.
In this deeply personal account, women's history advocate Joanne Callahan describes the put-downs of suffragists in the media and even in spaces designed to honor these activists. In her analysis, Callahan provides strong evidence of a double standard of history. She delves into Susan Faludi's theory of matricide, where feminists downgrade the accomplishments of their foremothers.
Nevertheless, she gives uplifting examples of women's history advocates who fought back. She also provides numerous suggestions on how we can "ripen the times" and ensure that suffragists take their rightful place in history.
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Joanne Callahan is a women's history advocate who has visited several women's suffrage sitesthroughout the country. She lives in Dallas and led the project to place a suffrage marker at Millermore Mansion in Old City Park. She has volunteered for the National Votes for Women's Trail for eight years and was involved in projects to place suffrage markers in El Paso and Austin. She recently retired from a four-decade career in information technology.