WOMEN & ECONOMICS
A Foundational Feminist Analysis of Marriage, Unpaid Domestic Labor, Economic Independence, and Social ReformBy Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Length8h 19m
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics (1898) offers a forceful analysis of women's subordination as an economic, rather than merely moral or legal, problem. Gilman argues that women's dependence on men, enforced through marriage, domestic confinement, and exclusion from productive labor, distorts both family life and social progress. Combining evolutionary speculation, social theory, feminist polemic, and reformist argument, the book challenges the ideal of separate spheres and calls for the socialization and professionalization of domestic work. Its lucid, assertive prose reflects the intellectual climate of Progressive-era reform while anticipating later socialist-feminist critiques of unpaid labor and economic dependency. Gilman wrote from the intertwined perspectives of a thinker, activist, and author deeply concerned with women's restricted lives. Her experiences of marriage, motherhood, economic vulnerability, and the nineteenth-century "woman question" informed her conviction that domestic arrangements were political institutions. Like her fiction, including "The Yellow Wallpaper," this work transforms personal and social confinement into an argument for structural change. Her engagement with emerging sociology, evolutionary thought, and labor reform enabled her to present feminism as a comprehensive program of social reconstruction. Women and Economics remains essential reading for anyone studying feminist theory, labor, marriage, or the history of social reform. Though some evolutionary assumptions are historically dated, Gilman's central insight—that economic organization shapes intimate life—retains striking relevance. The book is especially valuable for readers seeking the intellectual foundations of modern feminist economics and a bold, provocative account of collective liberation.
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GenrePsychology
Length8 hrs 19 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Odd Women (Annotated)
10VII.
2PROEM
11VIII.
3PREFACE
12IX.
4I.
13X.
5II.
14XI.
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15XII.
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