Background
Josephine Conger was born in Centralia, Missouri.
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Two years later the name changed to Progressive Woman (1909-1911) and was renamed again as The Coming Nation (1911-1914). Conger-Kaneko believed that men and women were equal and that sexual differences were imposed by society. 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 Judge-Advocate Wayland.
Politics
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, Socialist Woman. In 1905 she married Kiichi Kaneko, a Japanese socialist.
