Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 200
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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The home, its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. His central argument, that "economic independence and specialization of women is essential for the improvement of marriage, motherhood, the domestic industry and racial improvement" resonates in this work. At all times, he argues that the liberation of women, and of boys and men, for that matter, requires removing women from the home, both practically and ideologically. It is this provocative work and introduce Charlotte Perkins Gilman to a new generation of feminist students and scholars.Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Charlotte Anna Perkins (Hartford, Connecticut, July 3, 1860 - Pasadena, California, August 17, 1935), was a multidisciplinary American intellectual, very active in defending women's civil rights between the late 1890s and mid-1920s His best known work is The yellow wallpaper? published in 1892, a short story with autobiographical overtones written after a deep postpartum depression.