The home; its work and influence - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252002776 ISBN 13: 9780252002779

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1972

Synopsis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that "the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement" resonates in this work. Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women—and of children and of men, for that matter—requires getting women out of the house, both practically and ideologically. AltaMira Press is proud to reprint this provocative work and introduce Charlotte Perkins Gilman to a new generation of students and feminist scholars.

About this title

About the Author

THE HOME Shall the home be our world ... or the world our home? To every Man who maintains a Home— To every Woman who "keeps house"— To every House-Servant, owned, hired, or married— To every Boy and Girl who lives at Home— To every Baby who is born and reared at Home— In the hope of better homes for all this book is dedicated. ***

Review

What makes this book different is its temporal context. . . . I became fascinated by the description of a woman's lifeworld within a 'typical' middle-class, American home of only 100 years ago. . . . The Home: Its Work and Influence can be considered a classic in gender studies. (Valerie Wright-St. Clair Journal Of Occupational Studies, Nov. 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3 )

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252002776
• ISBN 13: 9780252002779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 347