Josephine Conger-Kaneko
Josephine Conger-Kaneko (5 May 1875-28 July 1934) was an American journalist and writer. She is best remembered as the editor of the magazines The Socialist Woman and Home Life.
Biography[]
Josephine Conger was born in Centralia, Missouri. She learned about the publishing trade at an early age, setting type for the Linneus Bulletin, a newspaper established by her brother.[1] She also delved in the writing of poetry, gaining some degree of local notoriety for her work.[1]
After attending the radical Ruskin College at Trenton, Missouri, she became a socialist[2] 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).[3][4] Conger-Kaneko believed that men and women were equal and that sexual differences were imposed by society.[5] In 1905 she married Kiichi Kaneko, a Japanese socialist.
After 1914 Conger-Kaneko moved to Chicago, where she continued to publish The Coming Nation. She continued this for another year or two. She was a candidate for Trustee of the University of Illinois in 1914, appearing on the ballot on the Socialist Party ticket.[6]
In May 1916, Conger-Kaneko was tapped as the new editor of Home Life, a magazine published in Chicago.[1]
The most extensive collection of Conger's writings, the ones published in The Appeal to Reason, are housed in the special collections department of at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas.[7] After World War I she retired from politics.[8]
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 (editor). Boston: The Stratford Company.
Selected articles[]
- "The 'Effeminization' of the United States," The World's Work 12, May/October 1906.
- "The Economic Dependence of Husbands," The Socialist Woman 6, November 1907.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Josephine Conger-Kaneko," Centralia [MO] Fireside Guard, May 12, 1916, p. 8.
- ^ Buhle, Mari Jo (1970). "Women and the Socialist Party, 1901-1914," Radical America 4 (2), pp. 36-47, 50-54.
- ^ Wayne, Tiffany K. (2011). Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History. ABC-CLIO, p. 400.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Wayne (2011), p. 401.
- ^ "Specimen Ballot," Beau County Tribune, Oct. 30, 1914, p. 11.
- ^ "Re: Query: Josephine Conger Kaneko". H-Net Discussion Networks. 1999-04-26. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ^ 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.
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