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

by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1997)

Abstract

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. Moreover, she explains, such reliance causes shortcomings in the human species as a whole. A landmark in feminist theory, Women and Economics was translated into seven languages and hailed as the "Bible" of the women's movement. 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.

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Feminist Arguments For Work Centrality, Women and Work

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