Cart

Categories

Women and Economics

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS

$34.99

ISBN: 9780486299747 Categories: ,

Temporarily out of stock

This classic of feminist theory relates the evolution of women's economic reliance on men and the system's deleterious effects on both sexes. A landmark treatise in the struggle for gender equality.

Author of the well-known short story \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" and other important fiction, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson] Gilman (1860–1935) was an ardent advocate of women's rights. 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. 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. New Introduction by Sheryl L. Meyering.

ISBN: 9780486299747
Author: GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10/07/1997
RRP: $34.99
Pages: 192
Dimension: 209mm X 136mm
Imprint: Dover Publications