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. She also delved in the writing of poetry, gaining some degree of local notoriety for her work. 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-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.

In May 1916, Conger-Kaneko was tapped as the new editor of Home Life, a magazine published in Chicago. After World War I she retired from politics.

She was a niece of J.A. Wayland.