![]() ![]() ![]() Now Gilman's masterpiece of feminist theory is again available in this modestly priced edition, ready to stimulate and inspire a new generation of women and men engaged in the ongoing fight for gender equality. Although its author's influence declined in the post-World War I period, modern feminists have returned to her still-incisive observations on the role and status of women, establishing Gilman as an important early figure in the struggle for women's economic and social rights. Gilmans whole argument in Women and Economics is fairly straightforward: as a result of middle-class womens economic dependence on men, they had become more. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is an examination of sex differences in Western society. ![]() Moreover, she explains, such reliance causes shortcomings in the human species as a whole.Ī landmark in feminist theory, Women and Economics was translated into seven languages and hailed as the "Bible" of the women's movement. Consequently they are aware that the unpaid caring works should not be exclusively assigned to women but rather should be shared by both family and society. In this classic feminist treatise, Gilman argues that women's dependence on men for their livelihood results in a state of arrested intellectual and emotional development deleterious to both genders. Author of the well-known short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and other important fiction, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an ardent advocate of women's rights. ![]()
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