Women and economics and other writings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; edited by Rachel Elin Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, author.

Contributor:

Nolan, Rachel Elin, editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Economic conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

321 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario ; Tonawanda, NY : Broadview Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This new edition of Women and Economics [1898] highlights the importance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a leading public intellectual of the Progressive Era. It contains Gilman's most influential analysis, including her signature idea that the relationship between men and women is at core "sexuo-economic." In the nineteenth century, most American women attempted to source personal safety and economic security from individual, wage-earning men in the context of marriage. Gilman applies ideas and techniques from evolutionary science to the study of marriage and the family. Her highly original approach reveals that female dependency is not a natural, but rather a cultivated, phenomenon. Women and Economics proposes wide-reaching reforms that were radical at the time and, as numerous twenty-first-century feminist economists continue to argue, are yet to be achieved today."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321).

Other Format:

Online version: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Women and economics and other writings.

ISBN:

9781554814978

1554814979

OCLC:

1346986877