Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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9781409924074: Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution

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ISBN 10: 1409924076 ISBN 13: 9781409924074

Publisher: Dodo Pr, 2008

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent and prolific American feminist writer most well known today for her first book, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), and her seminal work Women and Economics (1898). Gilman founded, edited, and wrote for the journal Forerunner, in which she serialized her novel Herland in 1915. She also co-founded the Women’s Peace Party. In her time, Gilman did not receive due recognition for her work, but many modern feminist writers have since reflected Gilman’s ideologies, and acknowledged her influence. Herland is a fascinating work depicting a feminist utopia, a society formed solely of women. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short horror story based on her own bout with mental illness and misguided medical treatment.

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Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her survival. Gilman's thesis challenges both biological and theological arguments about women's innate passivity and defies the virtual exclusion of women in classical sociological theory. If women are to fully engage in domestic and public life, Gilman contends that their emancipation requires both economic participation and adequate child care. Gilman's argument in this classic work resonates today, as women continue their struggle to find a meaningful independent identity and to balance work and family. Here reprinted with a new introduction, Women and Economics belongs on the same shelf as works by Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and other pioneering feminists.

About the Author:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson. Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born the following year. In 1888, Charlotte separated from her husband – a rare occurrence in the late nineteenth century. The two legally divorced in 1894. Following the separation, Charlotte moved with her daughter to Pasadena, California, where she became active in several feminist and reformist organizations.

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