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A review by rachsage
Sisters in Spirit by Sally Roesch Wagner
4.0
I read this for my Women's studies class and finished it in one day– it's a short and quick read. While the main purpose of this book is to show the connections between early EuroAmerican suffragists and the Haudenosaunee (Iriquois) society, it ends up touching upon a lot of other great ideas about feminism and white privilege, too. Told from the author's perspective as a white woman, the book acknowledges immediately the inherent problems in researching history from a white perspective. It's helpful along the way to see the author's own insights and realizations come light, as the reader's do.
While fairly simple and not extremely well edited or organized, I would recommend this book as an important reminder that the feminist movement needs to be intersectional and, more important, that neither the idea of gender equality nor the seeds of the feminist movement were born from white culture, although whites often get the credit, are the ones celebrated or published, and are often given a "savior" complex because of this misunderstanding. I would also recommend this as a great first book to read on some of these ideas, because it is short, digestible, and touches on a number of intersecting topics.
While fairly simple and not extremely well edited or organized, I would recommend this book as an important reminder that the feminist movement needs to be intersectional and, more important, that neither the idea of gender equality nor the seeds of the feminist movement were born from white culture, although whites often get the credit, are the ones celebrated or published, and are often given a "savior" complex because of this misunderstanding. I would also recommend this as a great first book to read on some of these ideas, because it is short, digestible, and touches on a number of intersecting topics.