Women and Economics

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gilman Gilman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486299740
• ISBN13: 9780486299747
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Psychologist's analysis of "Women and Economics"

Gilman's book and her ideas on the role of women in the struggles of all humans for equality and liberty are as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 19th. The book should be on the reference shelf of every policy maker and used as a basic book on government and political science. Her personal struggles are shared by many women and men who face the devastating effects of inequality and the abuse of liberty by others who seek the "four creatures of greed and power: fame, fortune, lust, and luxury". Gilman's message is that women (and men) should be careful to not copy the behavior of other men and other women who have sought these "four creatures".

A Great Feminist Work

Gilman shows the reader she is going with men in the workplace , but wants to show women are just as hard or harder workers at home than the men outside of the house. She wants to show how men think women are weaklings and she shows them wrong with her strong words against the put down of a man.