Josephine Conger-Kaneko

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

Josephine Conger was born in Centralia, Missouri. After attending the radical Ruskin College at Trenton, Missouri, she became a socialist 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). Conger-Kaneko believed that men and women were equal and that sexual differences were imposed by society. 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. After World War I she retired from politics.

She was a niece of J.A. Wayland.

• (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

• "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.