Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 – 1935
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) was an American philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Feminism and Pragmatism.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, philosopher, novelist, and one of the leading feminist theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women and Economics of 1898, her most important philosophical work, argued that the economic dependence of women on men is the root of their political subordination and the cause of much of the moral and intellectual distortion of modern society. Her novel The Yellow Wallpaper of 1892 turned a personal experience of medical mistreatment into a sustained literary critique of nineteenth-century medical and domestic patriarchy, and her later utopian novel Herland imagined a society of women whose institutions reflect the philosophical alternatives she defended in her treatises.
Key facts
- Nationality
- American
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Feminism, Pragmatism
Selected quotes
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“There is no female mind; the brain is not an organ of sex.”
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Attributed to Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
“Until economic independence of women is achieved, no other equality can be lasting.”
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Attributed to Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
“The home is not a refuge from the economy; it is the central economic institution disguised as a refuge.”
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Attributed to Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
“What we call women's nature is for the most part women's training under economic dependency.”
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Attributed to Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
“We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food.”
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman was associated with Feminism and Pragmatism.
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, philosopher, novelist, and one of the leading feminist theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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