"Woman, Church and State" A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN THROUGH THE CHRISTIAN AGES: WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE MATRIARCHATE: is among many works of Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 - March 18, 1898 in Chicago) who was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, born with a hatred of oppression.